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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Bahrain would have about 1.77 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has fallen by 0.08 children per woman. About 20 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 11.9 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.86, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children at a mean age of 30.0 years. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.63 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.77 children/woman
Birth rate
11.9 per 1,000 people
Total births
19.9K
Mean age at birth
30.0 years
Bahrain's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 7.3 children per woman in 1958 to 1.77 today, below the 2.1 replacement level.