Australia
19502100
2025
Fertility rate
1.64 children/woman
Birth rate
11.3 per 1,000 people
Total births
304.3K
Mean age at birth
31.5 years
Average number of children per woman over her lifetime
1.64 children per woman
Below replacement level (2.1)
Total births and teen pregnancy trends
TFR, net reproduction rate, and crude birth rate
Average age of mothers at childbirth
Boys per 100 girls at birth
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 31.5 since 1980.