Fertility in World, 2025

World
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.24
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of World is projected at 2.24 children per woman in 2025 — 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 28.3 years old. In total, 132,399,173 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.24
Births
132,399,173
Births per 1,000 people
16.1
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
9.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.03
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.3
Population
8,231,613,070
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%327,402
15-1937.68.4%11,991,280
20-24113.425.4%34,314,110
25-29127.628.5%37,316,099
30-3495.721.4%27,909,340
35-3951.211.4%15,032,173
40-4417.53.9%4,692,121
45-493.20.7%772,246
50-540.20.0%44,368