Fertility in United States of America, 2013

United States of America
2013
Total fertility rate: 1.84
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2013 1983, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of United States of America was 1.84 children per woman in 2013 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (105 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.8 years old. In total, 3,930,896 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.84
Births
3,930,896
Births per 1,000 people
12.3
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
6.9%
Net reproduction rate
0.89
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
320,110,759
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
10-140.40.1%4,056
15-1926.57.2%270,099
20-2480.221.7%889,727
25-29104.628.4%1,133,637
30-3497.326.4%1,040,236
35-3948.813.2%481,310
40-4410.12.7%104,329
45-490.70.2%7,344
50-540.00.0%157