Fertility in Nepal, 2024

Nepal
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Nepal 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 20-24 (146 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 25.3 years old. In total, 562,232 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.96
Births
562,232
Births per 1,000 people
19.0
Mean age of mothers
25.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.92
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
29,651,054
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
10-140.40.1%553
15-1966.516.9%97,622
20-24145.937.0%220,075
25-29105.026.7%151,704
30-3451.713.1%65,829
35-3917.94.5%19,992
40-445.91.5%5,755
45-490.80.2%647
50-540.10.0%50