Fertility in Southern Asia, 2025

Southern Asia
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.18
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Southern Asia is projected at 2.18 children per woman in 2025 — 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 27.8 years old. In total, 36,942,515 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.18
Births
36,942,515
Births per 1,000 people
17.7
Mean age of mothers
27.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
5.8%
Net reproduction rate
1.01
Boys per 100 girls at birth
106.2
Population
2,085,207,717
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
10-140.30.1%28,263
15-1923.85.5%2,141,857
20-24130.529.8%11,665,549
25-29144.033.0%12,283,197
30-3487.720.1%7,086,189
35-3936.08.2%2,747,188
40-4412.32.8%848,000
45-492.20.5%128,593
50-540.30.1%13,676