Countries With the Lowest Age at Childbearing

Every country with a figure for age at childbearing, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Nepal (25.3), Azerbaijan (25.9) and Nicaragua (26). The middle country of the 217 has 29.1.

What this measures

Mean age of mothers at childbearing, in years. Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

The average age of women giving birth in the year, based on how many births women of each age have. Later childbearing goes with fewer births, but not one for one. A country can have late but plentiful births, or early but few. No "better" direction is set.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2023–2023. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on age at childbearing

• Countries With the Highest Age at Childbearing
• Age at childbearing by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest European Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest African Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Indigenous American Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest East Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest South Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Middle Eastern Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Ethnic Diversity
• Countries With the Lowest Median Ages

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.