Fertility in Western Asia, 2025

Western Asia
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.52
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

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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Western Asia is projected at 2.52 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 (142 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 5,962,941 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.52
Births
5,962,941
Births per 1,000 people
19.0
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
7.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.19
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
314,297,231
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
10-140.40.1%5,646
15-1933.36.6%433,317
20-24115.522.9%1,410,546
25-29141.628.1%1,728,553
30-34115.823.0%1,355,051
35-3968.613.6%748,850
40-4424.94.9%244,718
45-494.00.8%34,775
50-540.20.0%1,483