Fertility in China, 2025

China
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.02
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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 1.02 children per woman in 2025 — 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 29.3 years old. In total, 8,709,352 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.02
Births
8,709,352
Births per 1,000 people
6.2
Mean age of mothers
29.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.3%
Net reproduction rate
0.48
Boys per 100 girls at birth
109.8
Population
1,416,096,094
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%296
15-195.12.5%200,593
20-2444.421.8%1,615,560
25-2969.734.2%2,676,810
30-3451.625.4%2,395,544
35-3924.211.9%1,408,027
40-446.33.1%314,692
45-492.01.0%89,341
50-540.10.1%8,486