Fertility in Bangladesh, 2025

Bangladesh
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.11
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

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The total fertility rate of Bangladesh is projected at 2.11 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (132 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 26.2 years old. In total, 3,441,259 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.11
Births
3,441,259
Births per 1,000 people
19.6
Mean age of mothers
26.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.5%
Net reproduction rate
1.00
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
175,686,900
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
10-141.20.3%8,831
15-1968.416.1%566,977
20-24132.031.0%1,139,225
25-29113.326.7%949,188
30-3472.317.0%532,874
35-3928.56.7%188,137
40-448.21.9%50,344
45-491.20.3%5,463
50-540.10.0%218