Fertility in China, 2016

China
2016
Total fertility rate: 1.77
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2016 1986, 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 1.77 children per woman in 2016 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (132 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.2 years old. In total, 18,329,285 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.77
Births
18,329,285
Births per 1,000 people
13.1
Mean age of mothers
28.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.81
Boys per 100 girls at birth
114.5
Population
1,404,052,632
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%263
15-1910.73.0%410,545
20-2498.027.5%4,305,734
25-29132.337.1%7,775,613
30-3476.521.5%3,951,854
35-3929.38.2%1,341,645
40-447.52.1%413,795
45-491.90.5%115,832
50-540.30.1%14,005