Fertility in Southern Asia, 2015

Southern Asia
2015
Total fertility rate: 2.50
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.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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The total fertility rate of Southern Asia was 2.50 children per woman in 2015 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (169 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.2 years old. In total, 38,920,037 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.50
Births
38,920,037
Births per 1,000 people
20.8
Mean age of mothers
27.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
7.2%
Net reproduction rate
1.12
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.7
Population
1,871,872,057
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
10-140.80.2%73,107
15-1932.16.4%2,814,082
20-24168.833.7%14,114,165
25-29157.631.4%12,443,412
30-3489.417.8%6,371,082
35-3936.87.3%2,270,570
40-4412.92.6%699,434
45-492.50.5%119,760
50-540.40.1%14,430