Fertility in Sri Lanka, 2019

Sri Lanka
2019
Total fertility rate: 2.02
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2019 1989, 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   2019  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Sri Lanka was 2.02 children per woman in 2019 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (127 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.6 years old. In total, 334,362 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.02
Births
334,362
Births per 1,000 people
14.9
Mean age of mothers
29.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
4.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.98
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
22,410,552
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
10-140.00.0%41
15-1915.63.9%13,339
20-2475.218.6%62,509
25-29127.331.5%105,203
30-34113.728.1%92,394
35-3956.714.0%48,616
40-4414.53.6%11,428
45-491.10.3%804
50-540.00.0%27