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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Australia would have about 1.64 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has held broadly steady. About 303 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 11.1 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.79, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 31.6 years, up from 27.1 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it holding near 1.63 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.64 children/woman
Birth rate
11.1 per 1,000 people
Total births
303.3K
Mean age at birth
31.6 years
Australia's fertility rate of 1.64 children per woman is below the 2.1 replacement level needed to maintain population size without immigration. Women are also having children later: mean age at childbearing has risen from 27.1 to 31.6 since 1980.