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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Mauritius would have about 1.21 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has fallen by 0.15 children per woman. About 11 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 8.9 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.58, far below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 29.5 years, up from 27.6 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.45 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.21 children/woman
Birth rate
8.9 per 1,000 people
Total births
11.3K
Mean age at birth
29.5 years
Mauritius' fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 6.2 children per woman in 1963 to 1.21 today, below the 2.1 replacement level.