Overview

• Annual births fell from 777,000 in 2014 to about 461,000 in 2023, marking the steepest decline in decades.
• The adolescent fertility rate plunged 60% over the last decade, reflecting progress in reproductive health and education.
• UNFPA surveys identify lack of stable income, housing insecurity and precarious employment as the main obstacles to parenthood.
• A study by Voices, WIN and UADE finds 41% of companies offer no flexible hours for prenatal care and mothers spend eight hours a day on childcare compared with under five for fathers.
• Census data show that 57% of households have no children and that the share of Argentines over 85 has jumped from 1.5% to 11.8% since 1991.