Fertility in Asia, 2024

Asia
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.88
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Asia is projected at 1.88 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (120 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.1 years old. In total, 65,492,045 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.88
Births
65,492,045
Births per 1,000 people
13.6
Mean age of mothers
28.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
5.7%
Net reproduction rate
0.87
Boys per 100 girls at birth
106.9
Population
4,806,898,007
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%47,066
15-1921.35.7%3,764,841
20-24104.227.7%18,090,171
25-29120.332.0%20,716,369
30-3479.221.1%14,133,418
35-3936.89.8%6,565,103
40-4411.53.1%1,847,099
45-492.10.6%301,479
50-540.20.0%26,505