Fertility in Japan, 2024

Japan
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.22
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 Japan is projected at 1.22 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (91 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 32.0 years old. In total, 750,570 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.22
Births
750,570
Births per 1,000 people
6.1
Mean age of mothers
32.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
0.6%
Net reproduction rate
0.59
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.1
Population
123,753,041
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%41
15-191.60.7%4,453
20-2417.37.1%50,873
25-2965.927.1%197,019
30-3491.237.6%272,923
35-3953.622.1%176,619
40-4412.55.1%46,138
45-490.60.2%2,506
50-540.00.0%0