Fertility in Timor-Leste, 2025

Timor-Leste
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.56
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 Timor-Leste is projected at 2.56 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (156 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.3 years old. In total, 30,643 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.56
Births
30,643
Births per 1,000 people
21.6
Mean age of mothers
29.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
6.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.16
Boys per 100 girls at birth
107.1
Population
1,418,517
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%8
15-1926.25.1%2,012
20-24117.822.9%8,802
25-29156.330.4%9,803
30-34113.322.0%5,889
35-3965.712.8%2,963
40-4428.65.6%1,013
45-495.91.1%145
50-540.40.1%10