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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Uruguay would have about 1.38 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 33 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 9.7 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 29.5 years, up from 27.5 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.52 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.38 children/woman
Birth rate
9.7 per 1,000 people
Total births
32.9K
Mean age at birth
29.5 years
Uruguay's fertility rate of 1.38 children per woman is below the 2.1 replacement level needed to maintain population size without immigration.