Fertility in Papua New Guinea, 2025

Papua New Guinea
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.03
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 Papua New Guinea is projected at 3.03 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 (148 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.2 years old. In total, 256,974 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.03
Births
256,974
Births per 1,000 people
23.9
Mean age of mothers
29.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
10.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.36
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.6
Population
10,762,817
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%765
15-1952.78.7%26,532
20-24141.823.4%66,470
25-29147.924.4%64,297
30-34123.220.3%49,867
35-3987.814.5%32,902
40-4440.86.7%13,287
45-499.81.6%2,725
50-540.60.1%126