Fertility in Dem. People's Republic of Korea, 1980

Dem. People's Republic of Korea
1980
Total fertility rate: 2.84
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
1980 1950, 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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-5 -1   1980  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Dem. People's Republic of Korea was 2.84 children per woman in 1980 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (254 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.0 years old. In total, 366,545 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.84
Births
366,545
Births per 1,000 people
20.1
Mean age of mothers
29.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.28
Boys per 100 girls at birth
106.0
Population
18,236,786
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%5
15-196.51.2%6,020
20-2496.817.2%80,479
25-29253.845.2%138,461
30-34146.326.1%100,450
35-3943.27.7%30,965
40-4413.42.4%9,357
45-491.30.2%713
50-540.20.0%94