Fertility in World, 2024

World
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.25
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

Year

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The total fertility rate of World is projected at 2.25 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (128 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.2 years old. In total, 132,405,927 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.25
Births
132,405,927
Births per 1,000 people
16.2
Mean age of mothers
28.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
9.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.03
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.4
Population
8,161,972,572
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
10-141.00.2%337,769
15-1938.38.5%12,076,276
20-24114.925.6%34,515,122
25-29127.928.5%37,286,046
30-3494.921.1%27,926,657
35-3951.211.4%14,832,756
40-4417.63.9%4,625,419
45-493.20.7%761,057
50-540.20.0%44,783