Fertility in China, 2015

China
2015
Total fertility rate: 1.67
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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 1.67 children per woman in 2015 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (124 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.1 years old. In total, 17,518,179 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.67
Births
17,518,179
Births per 1,000 people
12.5
Mean age of mothers
28.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.76
Boys per 100 girls at birth
115.0
Population
1,396,134,174
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%257
15-1910.93.2%423,387
20-2495.628.4%4,489,800
25-29124.436.9%7,318,072
30-3470.320.9%3,539,404
35-3926.47.8%1,211,253
40-447.02.1%404,567
45-491.90.6%117,077
50-540.30.1%14,362