Latin America & Caribbean - fertility rate 2013-2023| Statista

In 2023, the total fertility rate in Latin America & the Caribbean remained nearly unchanged at around 1.8 children per woman. Yet 2023 saw the lowest fertility rate in Latin America & the Caribbean with 1.8 children per woman.
The total fertility rate is the average number of children that a woman of childbearing age (generally considered 15 to 44 years) is expected to have throughout her reproductive years. Unlike birth rates, which are based on the actual number of live births in a given population, fertility rates are estimates (similar to life expectancy) that apply to a hypothetical woman, as they assume that current patterns in age-specific fertility will remain constant throughout her reproductive years.

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Latin America & Caribbean: Fertility rate from 2013 to 2023

Characteristic	Number of children born per woman
2023	1.8
2022	1.81
2021	1.83
2020	1.86
2019	1.92
2018	1.96
2017	1.98
2016	2.01
2015	2.06
2014	2.09
2013	2.11

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Release date

March 2025

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Region

LAC

Survey time period

2013 to 2023

Supplementary notes

Values have been rounded.

According to the source, Latin America and the Caribbean comprise the following countries:
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela.

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