Fertility in China, 2021

China
2021
Total fertility rate: 1.12
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2021 1991, 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 1.12 children per woman in 2021 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (78 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 10,461,124 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.12
Births
10,461,124
Births per 1,000 people
7.3
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.52
Boys per 100 girls at birth
110.4
Population
1,426,437,267
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%270
15-196.02.7%219,352
20-2452.523.5%1,995,064
25-2978.535.1%3,429,200
30-3454.624.4%3,194,955
35-3923.810.6%1,221,959
40-446.22.8%283,031
45-491.90.9%105,615
50-540.20.1%11,679