Fertility in China, 2013

China
2013
Total fertility rate: 1.71
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2013 1983, 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 1.71 children per woman in 2013 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (129 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.8 years old. In total, 18,297,106 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.71
Births
18,297,106
Births per 1,000 people
13.3
Mean age of mothers
27.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.7%
Net reproduction rate
0.78
Boys per 100 girls at birth
116.0
Population
1,379,008,040
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%219
15-1912.03.4%491,285
20-24104.930.2%5,655,027
25-29128.837.1%7,097,782
30-3469.320.0%3,367,407
35-3923.86.8%1,170,006
40-446.51.9%405,552
45-491.70.5%97,749
50-540.30.1%12,078