Fertility in World, 2040

World
2040
Total fertility rate: 2.13
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2040 2010, 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   2040  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of World is projected at 2.13 children per woman in 2040 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (121 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.8 years old. In total, 135,668,984 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.13
Births
135,668,984
Births per 1,000 people
14.8
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
7.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.99
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.8
Population
9,177,190,203
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
10-140.70.2%218,859
15-1932.77.7%10,099,116
20-2494.922.3%31,050,966
25-29120.628.3%40,001,292
30-34101.423.8%32,069,828
35-3955.112.9%16,342,758
40-4417.94.2%5,076,481
45-492.70.6%769,177
50-540.10.0%40,426