Fertility in Melanesia, 2025

Melanesia
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.99
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 Melanesia is projected at 2.99 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (149 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 308,768 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.99
Births
308,768
Births per 1,000 people
23.5
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
9.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.36
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.5
Population
13,165,119
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
10-141.30.2%844
15-1949.88.3%30,549
20-24141.623.7%80,511
25-29149.024.9%78,531
30-34123.320.6%60,614
35-3985.614.3%39,204
40-4438.36.4%15,387
45-498.71.5%2,984
50-540.50.1%137