Fertility in Southern Asia, 2016

Southern Asia
2016
Total fertility rate: 2.49
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2016 1986, 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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-5 -1   2016  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Southern Asia was 2.49 children per woman in 2016 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (162 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.6 years old. In total, 38,947,218 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.49
Births
38,947,218
Births per 1,000 people
20.6
Mean age of mothers
27.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
6.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.12
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.6
Population
1,894,465,346
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
10-140.70.1%59,776
15-1929.15.8%2,578,685
20-24156.031.2%13,084,031
25-29162.232.5%12,912,858
30-3495.419.1%6,936,736
35-3939.57.9%2,493,629
40-4413.52.7%748,661
45-492.50.5%119,381
50-540.30.1%13,464