Fertility in United Kingdom, 2024

United Kingdom
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.55
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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The total fertility rate of United Kingdom is projected at 1.55 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (103 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.0 years old. In total, 683,910 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.55
Births
683,910
Births per 1,000 people
9.9
Mean age of mothers
31.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.3%
Net reproduction rate
0.75
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
69,138,192
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-140.00.0%54
15-197.82.5%15,540
20-2441.113.3%78,352
25-2981.326.2%174,919
30-34103.333.3%239,665
35-3960.519.5%138,904
40-4414.74.7%33,791
45-491.30.4%2,660
50-540.00.0%27