Fertility in Melanesia, 2024

Melanesia
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.03
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 Melanesia is projected at 3.03 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (151 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.2 years old. In total, 308,550 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.03
Births
308,550
Births per 1,000 people
23.8
Mean age of mothers
29.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
9.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.37
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.5
Population
12,944,900
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
10-141.40.2%888
15-1950.68.3%30,563
20-24143.223.6%80,310
25-29150.724.9%78,491
30-34124.720.6%60,747
35-3986.614.3%38,963
40-4439.46.5%15,399
45-499.21.5%3,047
50-540.50.1%141