Fertility in Asia, 2013

Asia
2013
Total fertility rate: 2.28
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2013 1983, 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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The total fertility rate of Asia was 2.28 children per woman in 2013 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (144 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.3 years old. In total, 79,733,358 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.28
Births
79,733,358
Births per 1,000 people
18.2
Mean age of mothers
27.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
7.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.03
Boys per 100 girls at birth
109.4
Population
4,388,941,159
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
10-140.70.2%129,152
15-1935.87.8%6,284,138
20-24143.531.4%26,525,827
25-29141.931.0%25,419,371
30-3485.018.6%13,727,172
35-3937.38.2%5,610,573
40-4411.12.4%1,696,780
45-492.20.5%309,858
50-540.30.1%30,463