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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Bhutan would have about 1.43 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has fallen by 0.06 children per woman. About 10 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 12.2 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.68, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 30.1 years, up from 28.4 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.53 children per woman.
Fertility rate
1.43 children/woman
Birth rate
12.2 per 1,000 people
Total births
9.8K
Mean age at birth
30.1 years
Bhutan's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 6.8 children per woman in 1950 to 1.43 today, below the 2.1 replacement level.