Fertility in Sri Lanka, 2021

Sri Lanka
2021
Total fertility rate: 2.00
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2021 1991, 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   2021  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Sri Lanka was 2.00 children per woman in 2021 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (126 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.6 years old. In total, 328,525 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.00
Births
328,525
Births per 1,000 people
14.5
Mean age of mothers
29.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
4.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.96
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
22,700,372
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%38
15-1915.43.9%13,538
20-2473.918.5%60,751
25-29125.731.5%104,300
30-34112.428.2%90,649
35-3956.014.0%46,590
40-4414.13.5%11,823
45-491.10.3%811
50-540.00.0%26