Total fertility rate of Peru 1900-2020
From the 1960s onwards, this trend would see a rapid reversal, as increased access to contraception, combined with an increasingly modernizing and urbanizing society, would lead to a sharp decline in fertility in the country. As a result, fertility would halve in just the last quarter of the 20th century alone, falling from six children per woman in 1975 to just three by 2000. This decline has continued steadily in recent decades, as Peru continues to undergo demographic shifts; as a result, the average woman born in Peru in 2020 can expect to have approximately 2.3 children over the course of her reproductive years, which is slightly above replacement level.