Fertility in Sri Lanka, 2024

Sri Lanka
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.95
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Sri Lanka is projected at 1.95 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (123 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.6 years old. In total, 320,429 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.95
Births
320,429
Births per 1,000 people
13.9
Mean age of mothers
29.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
4.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.94
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
23,103,565
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%33
15-1914.73.8%13,177
20-2470.518.1%59,379
25-29123.431.6%100,612
30-34111.428.6%90,580
35-3955.414.2%44,402
40-4413.33.4%11,309
45-491.20.3%908
50-540.00.0%28