Fertility in Papua New Guinea, 2024

Papua New Guinea
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.07
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 Papua New Guinea is projected at 3.07 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 (150 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.2 years old. In total, 256,911 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.07
Births
256,911
Births per 1,000 people
24.3
Mean age of mothers
29.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
10.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.38
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.6
Population
10,576,502
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
10-141.50.2%811
15-1953.58.7%26,573
20-24143.423.3%66,311
25-29149.724.3%64,282
30-34124.820.3%50,006
35-3989.014.5%32,669
40-4442.16.8%13,331
45-4910.41.7%2,793
50-540.60.1%130