Fertility in India, 2024

India
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.96
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 India is projected at 1.96 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 (138 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.6 years old. In total, 23,186,978 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.96
Births
23,186,978
Births per 1,000 people
16.0
Mean age of mothers
27.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.91
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.1
Population
1,450,935,791
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
10-140.20.0%10,771
15-1913.03.3%790,988
20-24127.432.4%7,883,264
25-29138.135.1%8,177,233
30-3476.619.5%4,356,550
35-3927.47.0%1,470,069
40-449.22.3%441,452
45-491.10.3%47,626
50-540.20.1%9,024