French Polynesia Births & Fertility (2026)

If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in French Polynesia would have about 1.47 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has fallen by 0.06 children per woman. About 3 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 10.3 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.71, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 29.4 years, up from 27.2 in 1980. Mothers aged 15-19 account for 8% of births. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.54 children per woman.