Fertility in World, 2026

World
2026
Total fertility rate: 2.23
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2026 1996, 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   2026  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of World is projected at 2.23 children per woman in 2026 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (127 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.3 years old. In total, 132,503,469 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.23
Births
132,503,469
Births per 1,000 people
16.0
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
9.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.03
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.3
Population
8,300,678,396
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%317,560
15-1937.08.3%11,914,959
20-24112.025.1%34,130,273
25-29127.428.6%37,428,844
30-3496.521.6%27,942,541
35-3951.411.5%15,178,687
40-4417.53.9%4,762,007
45-493.20.7%784,565
50-540.20.0%43,941