Fertility in China, 2020

China
2020
Total fertility rate: 1.24
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2020 1990, 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 1.24 children per woman in 2020 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (88 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 11,843,469 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.24
Births
11,843,469
Births per 1,000 people
8.3
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.58
Boys per 100 girls at birth
111.2
Population
1,426,106,093
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%280
15-196.72.7%246,880
20-2458.823.7%2,273,159
25-2987.835.4%4,098,395
30-3460.324.3%3,524,989
35-3925.410.2%1,270,924
40-446.52.6%297,693
45-492.10.8%118,425
50-540.20.1%12,723