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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Saint Lucia would have about 1.37 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has held broadly steady. About 2 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 10.9 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.66, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 28.9 years, up from 27.1 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.50 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.37 children/woman
Birth rate
10.9 per 1,000 people
Total births
2K
Mean age at birth
28.9 years
Saint Lucia's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 6.8 children per woman in 1961 to 1.37 today, below the 2.1 replacement level.