Fertility in China, 2022

China
2022
Total fertility rate: 1.03
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2022 1992, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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The total fertility rate of China was 1.03 children per woman in 2022 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (72 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.0 years old. In total, 9,455,320 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.03
Births
9,455,320
Births per 1,000 people
6.6
Mean age of mothers
29.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.48
Boys per 100 girls at birth
110.6
Population
1,425,179,569
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%251
15-195.52.6%201,628
20-2448.023.2%1,795,370
25-2971.734.6%3,006,470
30-3450.624.5%2,846,941
35-3923.011.1%1,215,233
40-446.12.9%284,513
45-491.80.9%94,415
50-540.20.1%10,499