Fertility in Nepal, 2025

Nepal
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.94
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 Nepal is projected at 1.94 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (145 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 25.3 years old. In total, 551,647 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.94
Births
551,647
Births per 1,000 people
18.6
Mean age of mothers
25.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.91
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
29,618,118
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%491
15-1965.816.9%94,767
20-24144.737.2%215,129
25-29104.126.7%149,691
30-3450.913.1%65,835
35-3917.24.4%19,506
40-445.61.4%5,583
45-490.70.2%603
50-540.10.0%47