Fertility in Sri Lanka, 2013

Sri Lanka
2013
Total fertility rate: 2.18
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2013 1983, 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 Sri Lanka was 2.18 children per woman in 2013 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (135 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.4 years old. In total, 363,696 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.18
Births
363,696
Births per 1,000 people
17.0
Mean age of mothers
29.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
4.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.05
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.3
Population
21,358,827
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
10-140.10.0%75
15-1919.84.5%16,828
20-2486.619.8%72,694
25-29135.030.9%112,563
30-34117.827.0%102,992
35-3960.914.0%47,021
40-4415.03.4%10,720
45-491.10.3%781
50-540.00.0%21