Fertility in Bangladesh, 2024

Bangladesh
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.14
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Bangladesh is projected at 2.14 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (134 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 26.1 years old. In total, 3,469,124 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.14
Births
3,469,124
Births per 1,000 people
20.0
Mean age of mothers
26.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.01
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
173,562,364
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
10-141.30.3%10,224
15-1970.816.5%599,185
20-24133.631.1%1,153,270
25-29113.826.5%949,818
30-3472.216.8%510,916
35-3928.66.7%191,850
40-448.31.9%48,111
45-491.20.3%5,523
50-540.10.0%227