Fertility in Asia, 2000

Asia
2000
Total fertility rate: 2.58
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2000 1970, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   2000  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Asia was 2.58 children per woman in 2000 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (169 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 26.6 years old. In total, 79,826,537 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.58
Births
79,826,537
Births per 1,000 people
21.3
Mean age of mothers
26.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
13.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.12
Boys per 100 girls at birth
109.8
Population
3,747,780,304
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-142.90.6%545,474
15-1960.011.6%10,429,987
20-24169.532.8%26,386,855
25-29149.528.9%23,614,087
30-3481.915.9%12,271,476
35-3937.47.2%4,886,906
40-4413.02.5%1,432,640
45-492.40.5%243,257
50-540.20.0%15,830