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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Greenland would have about 1.90 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has fallen by 0.09 children per woman. About 714 babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 12.8 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.89, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 28.1 years, up from 26.7 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.73 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.90 children/woman
Birth rate
12.8 per 1,000 people
Total births
714
Mean age at birth
28.1 years
Greenland's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 6.8 children per woman in 1962 to 1.90 today, below the 2.1 replacement level.