Fertility in Eastern Asia, 2025

Eastern Asia
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.03
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Eastern Asia is projected at 1.03 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 29.6 years old. In total, 10,268,500 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.03
Births
10,268,500
Births per 1,000 people
6.2
Mean age of mothers
29.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.49
Boys per 100 girls at birth
109.1
Population
1,652,185,615
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%379
15-194.72.3%210,010
20-2441.019.8%1,731,588
25-2969.833.8%3,141,234
30-3455.727.0%2,968,173
35-3926.412.8%1,721,432
40-446.83.3%393,156
45-491.80.8%93,969
50-540.10.1%8,560