Fertility in China, 2008

China
2008
Total fertility rate: 1.70
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2008 1978, 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

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The total fertility rate of China was 1.70 children per woman in 2008 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (125 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.2 years old. In total, 17,712,990 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.70
Births
17,712,990
Births per 1,000 people
13.3
Mean age of mothers
27.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.76
Boys per 100 girls at birth
117.5
Population
1,333,821,016
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%139
15-1911.03.3%597,215
20-24118.134.9%6,545,687
25-29125.137.0%6,113,858
30-3459.417.6%2,943,212
35-3918.85.5%1,174,009
40-444.91.5%293,630
45-490.90.3%34,903
50-540.20.1%10,339