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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Guadeloupe would have about 2.04 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 4 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 10.3 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.99, just under the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 32.0 years, up from 27.3 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.78 children per woman.
Fertility rate
2.04 children/woman
Birth rate
10.3 per 1,000 people
Total births
3.9K
Mean age at birth
32.0 years
Guadeloupe's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 5.9 children per woman in 1962 to 2.04 today, below the 2.1 replacement level. Women are also having children later: mean age at childbearing has risen from 27.3 to 32.0 since 1980.