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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Canada would have about 1.33 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has fallen by 0.10 children per woman. About 361 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 8.9 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.64, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 31.7 years, up from 27.0 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.49 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.33 children/woman
Birth rate
8.9 per 1,000 people
Total births
361.3K
Mean age at birth
31.7 years
Canada's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 3.9 children per woman in 1959 to 1.33 today, below the 2.1 replacement level. Women are also having children later: mean age at childbearing has risen from 27.0 to 31.7 since 1980.