Fertility in China, 2023

China
2023
Total fertility rate: 1.00
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2023 1993, 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 1.00 children per woman in 2023 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (69 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.0 years old. In total, 8,899,881 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.00
Births
8,899,881
Births per 1,000 people
6.3
Mean age of mothers
29.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.47
Boys per 100 girls at birth
110.8
Population
1,422,584,933
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%235
15-195.22.6%196,071
20-2446.523.3%1,718,945
25-2969.334.7%2,808,812
30-3448.624.3%2,590,529
35-3922.211.1%1,213,672
40-445.82.9%280,747
45-491.70.8%81,468
50-540.20.1%9,403