Fertility in China, 2019

China
2019
Total fertility rate: 1.50
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2019 1989, 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 1.50 children per woman in 2019 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (109 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.6 years old. In total, 14,615,866 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.50
Births
14,615,866
Births per 1,000 people
10.3
Mean age of mothers
28.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.69
Boys per 100 girls at birth
113.9
Population
1,423,520,357
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%286
15-198.32.8%305,409
20-2476.025.3%3,009,057
25-29109.236.4%5,511,135
30-3469.823.2%3,965,257
35-3927.79.2%1,360,434
40-447.12.4%330,056
45-492.00.7%120,641
50-540.20.1%13,590