Fertility in China, 2024

China
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.01
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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 is projected at 1.01 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (70 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.2 years old. In total, 8,822,056 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.01
Births
8,822,056
Births per 1,000 people
6.2
Mean age of mothers
29.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.3%
Net reproduction rate
0.47
Boys per 100 girls at birth
110.3
Population
1,419,321,278
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%298
15-195.22.6%199,138
20-2445.722.6%1,675,825
25-2969.734.5%2,737,345
30-3450.024.8%2,506,912
35-3923.211.5%1,312,513
40-446.13.0%295,956
45-491.80.9%84,924
50-540.20.1%9,149