Fertility rate in Euro area
The fertility rate in the euro area was 1.35 births per woman in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1960.
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2024
1.35
Change from 2023
−2.3%
World, 2024
2.19 births per woman
Fertility rate in Euro area over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
Births per woman. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Euro area | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.35 births per woman | 2.19 births per woman |
| 2023 | 1.38 births per woman | 2.20 births per woman |
| 2022 | 1.45 births per woman | 2.22 births per woman |
| 2021 | 1.51 births per woman | 2.25 births per woman |
| 2020 | 1.48 births per woman | 2.28 births per woman |
| 2019 | 1.51 births per woman | 2.35 births per woman |
| 2018 | 1.53 births per woman | 2.39 births per woman |
| 2017 | 1.55 births per woman | 2.46 births per woman |
| 2016 | 1.57 births per woman | 2.49 births per woman |
| 2015 | 1.55 births per woman | 2.49 births per woman |
| 2014 | 1.55 births per woman | 2.52 births per woman |
| 2013 | 1.53 births per woman | 2.52 births per woman |
| 2012 | 1.55 births per woman | 2.56 births per woman |
| 2011 | 1.56 births per woman | 2.55 births per woman |
| 2010 | 1.58 births per woman | 2.57 births per woman |
| 2009 | 1.56 births per woman | 2.59 births per woman |
| 2008 | 1.58 births per woman | 2.60 births per woman |
| 2007 | 1.54 births per woman | 2.60 births per woman |
| 2006 | 1.52 births per woman | 2.61 births per woman |
| 2005 | 1.50 births per woman | 2.61 births per woman |
| 2004 | 1.49 births per woman | 2.63 births per woman |
| 2003 | 1.47 births per woman | 2.64 births per woman |
| 2002 | 1.45 births per woman | 2.66 births per woman |
| 2001 | 1.45 births per woman | 2.69 births per woman |
| 2000 | 1.46 births per woman | 2.73 births per woman |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −2.3% from 1.38 births per woman in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 1.55 births per woman, the figure has changed by −12.9%.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 2.19 births per woman.
More for Euro area
All statistics for Euro area
Crude birth rate
8.0 per 1,000 people
2024 · World Bank
Population
358,664,361 people
2025 · World Bank
Population growth
0.30%
2025 · World Bank
Population aged 65 and over
22.9%
2025 · World Bank
Population aged 0 to 14
14.0%
2025 · World Bank
Crude death rate
10.6 per 1,000 people
2024 · World Bank