Fertility in South-Eastern Asia, 2015

South-Eastern Asia
2015
Total fertility rate: 2.28
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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 South-Eastern Asia was 2.28 children per woman in 2015 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (126 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.3 years old. In total, 11,837,056 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.28
Births
11,837,056
Births per 1,000 people
18.4
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
9.5%
Net reproduction rate
1.05
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.4
Population
642,375,722
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
10-140.50.1%12,990
15-1941.69.1%1,124,026
20-24113.024.8%3,086,206
25-29126.327.7%3,324,270
30-3498.521.6%2,532,956
35-3956.212.3%1,318,853
40-4417.43.8%379,204
45-492.80.6%56,155
50-540.10.0%2,396