Fertility in Eastern Asia, 2024

Eastern Asia
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.03
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Eastern Asia is projected at 1.03 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 29.5 years old. In total, 10,390,852 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.03
Births
10,390,852
Births per 1,000 people
6.3
Mean age of mothers
29.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.48
Boys per 100 girls at birth
109.6
Population
1,656,115,405
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%382
15-194.82.3%208,644
20-2442.120.6%1,795,382
25-2969.934.1%3,209,916
30-3454.026.4%3,077,476
35-3925.612.5%1,626,850
40-446.63.2%373,707
45-491.60.8%89,271
50-540.10.1%9,229