Fertility in Saudi Arabia, 2010

Saudi Arabia
2010
Total fertility rate: 2.81
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2010 1980, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of Saudi Arabia was 2.81 children per woman in 2010 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (175 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.5 years old. In total, 506,348 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.81
Births
506,348
Births per 1,000 people
20.1
Mean age of mothers
29.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
4.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.34
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.1
Population
25,157,128
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
10-140.10.0%85
15-1917.93.2%20,001
20-24129.222.9%149,630
25-29175.531.0%174,315
30-34131.723.3%101,123
35-3974.213.1%44,116
40-4428.75.1%13,968
45-497.51.3%2,932
50-540.60.1%178