Fertility in Sri Lanka, 2025

Sri Lanka
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.94
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Sri Lanka is projected at 1.94 children per woman in 2025 — 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 29.7 years old. In total, 318,489 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.94
Births
318,489
Births per 1,000 people
13.7
Mean age of mothers
29.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
4.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.94
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
23,229,470
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%30
15-1914.43.7%12,877
20-2469.518.0%59,378
25-29122.631.7%99,338
30-34111.228.7%90,798
35-3955.214.3%44,075
40-4413.23.4%11,022
45-491.20.3%941
50-540.00.0%30