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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Costa Rica would have about 1.31 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has held broadly steady. About 50 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 9.7 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.63, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children at a mean age of 28.6 years. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.49 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.31 children/woman
Birth rate
9.7 per 1,000 people
Total births
50.2K
Mean age at birth
28.6 years
Costa Rica's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 6.7 children per woman in 1959 to 1.31 today, below the 2.1 replacement level.