Fertility in Australia, 2025

Australia
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.64
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

Country

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

The total fertility rate of Australia is projected at 1.64 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (116 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.5 years old. In total, 304,326 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.64
Births
304,326
Births per 1,000 people
11.3
Mean age of mothers
31.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.6%
Net reproduction rate
0.79
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.6
Population
26,974,026
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
10-140.00.0%30
15-196.21.9%4,993
20-2435.710.8%27,837
25-2982.625.1%72,250
30-34115.735.2%112,523
35-3970.721.5%69,964
40-4416.55.0%15,582
45-491.40.4%1,147
50-540.00.0%0