Spain: fertility rate by region 2021

The city of Melilla ranked as the Spanish region with the highest fertility rate in Spain, with an average of roughly 1.68 children per woman in 2021. That year, Melilla ranked first as the region with the highest birth rate as well, with an average of 11.13 newborns every 1,000 inhabitants.

Fertility rate in Spain in 2021, by autonomous community

Characteristic	Fertility rate*
Melilla	1.68
Murcia	1.48
Navarre	1.38
Ceuta	1.32
Aragon	1.29
Andalusia	1.27
La Rioja	1.24
Basque Country	1.24
Catalonia	1.23
Castile-La Mancha	1.22
Region of Valencia	1.22
Extremadura	1.19
National average	1.19
Community of Madrid	1.16
Balearic Islands	1.13
Castile and Leon	1.08
Cantabria	1.04
Galicia	1.01
Asturias	0.95
Canary Islands	0.86

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2022

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Spain

Survey time period

2021

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* The Total Fertility Rate is the average number of children that would be born to the average woman according to age-specific fertility rates of the year in question.

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