Fertility in China, 2010

China
2010
Total fertility rate: 1.69
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2010 1980, 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 1.69 children per woman in 2010 — 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 27.4 years old. In total, 17,912,367 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.69
Births
17,912,367
Births per 1,000 people
13.3
Mean age of mothers
27.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.76
Boys per 100 girls at birth
117.1
Population
1,351,561,514
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%173
15-1912.23.6%573,565
20-24109.732.5%6,483,558
25-29124.536.9%6,298,474
30-3463.118.7%2,910,591
35-3920.76.1%1,211,504
40-446.01.8%361,392
45-491.30.4%64,735
50-540.20.1%8,379