Fertility in Asia, 2019

Asia
2019
Total fertility rate: 2.07
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2019 1989, 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 2.07 children per woman in 2019 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (133 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.0 years old. In total, 72,705,331 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.07
Births
72,705,331
Births per 1,000 people
15.6
Mean age of mothers
28.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
5.8%
Net reproduction rate
0.95
Boys per 100 girls at birth
108.3
Population
4,652,385,286
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
10-140.30.1%60,857
15-1924.15.8%4,211,197
20-24116.528.0%20,175,279
25-29133.232.1%23,983,654
30-3486.720.9%15,611,939
35-3940.09.6%6,513,289
40-4412.12.9%1,788,439
45-492.20.5%330,235
50-540.20.1%30,410