Fertility in China, 2017

China
2017
Total fertility rate: 1.80
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2017 1987, 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 1.80 children per woman in 2017 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (134 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.3 years old. In total, 18,260,492 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.80
Births
18,260,492
Births per 1,000 people
12.9
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.83
Boys per 100 girls at birth
113.3
Population
1,412,354,727
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%274
15-1910.22.8%384,698
20-2496.726.7%4,081,458
25-29133.737.0%7,554,128
30-3480.222.2%4,259,513
35-3930.98.6%1,454,647
40-447.72.1%400,114
45-491.80.5%112,533
50-540.20.1%13,131