Fertility in Southern Asia, 2024

Southern Asia
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.20
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Southern Asia is projected at 2.20 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (144 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.7 years old. In total, 37,086,077 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.20
Births
37,086,077
Births per 1,000 people
18.0
Mean age of mothers
27.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
6.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.02
Boys per 100 girls at birth
106.4
Population
2,064,056,491
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
10-140.40.1%31,594
15-1924.95.6%2,240,033
20-24133.130.2%11,893,323
25-29144.532.7%12,225,850
30-3487.319.8%6,993,233
35-3936.28.2%2,728,810
40-4412.42.8%832,551
45-492.20.5%127,118
50-540.30.1%13,565