Fertility in Sri Lanka, 2016

Sri Lanka
2016
Total fertility rate: 2.06
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

Year

-5 -1   2016  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Sri Lanka was 2.06 children per woman in 2016 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (130 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.5 years old. In total, 342,918 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.06
Births
342,918
Births per 1,000 people
15.7
Mean age of mothers
29.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
4.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.99
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.3
Population
21,910,772
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%46
15-1916.54.0%13,754
20-2477.218.7%65,182
25-29129.631.4%106,089
30-34115.127.9%96,864
35-3958.514.2%49,620
40-4414.53.5%10,499
45-491.20.3%834
50-540.00.0%27