Fertility in China, 1980

China
1980
Total fertility rate: 2.74
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
1980 1950, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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-5 -1   1980  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of China was 2.74 children per woman in 1980 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (197 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.9 years old. In total, 21,674,421 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.74
Births
21,674,421
Births per 1,000 people
22.0
Mean age of mothers
27.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.20
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.1
Population
983,163,542
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
10-140.10.0%8,291
15-1911.82.1%622,609
20-24184.433.3%7,871,178
25-29197.135.6%8,707,268
30-3492.116.6%2,898,962
35-3943.87.9%1,043,655
40-4420.03.6%444,011
45-493.40.6%71,209
50-540.40.1%7,240