Fertility in China, 2000

China
2000
Total fertility rate: 1.63
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2000 1970, 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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The total fertility rate of China was 1.63 children per woman in 2000 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (135 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 26.3 years old. In total, 17,551,191 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.63
Births
17,551,191
Births per 1,000 people
13.8
Mean age of mothers
26.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.9%
Net reproduction rate
0.71
Boys per 100 girls at birth
117.2
Population
1,269,581,175
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%323
15-196.42.0%330,994
20-24134.741.4%6,318,419
25-29125.138.5%7,417,964
30-3446.214.2%2,848,337
35-3910.63.3%544,214
40-441.80.6%74,430
45-490.30.1%12,459
50-540.10.0%4,052