Brunei Darussalam Births & Fertility (2026)

If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Brunei would have about 1.70 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 6 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 12.7 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.80, well below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 30.8 years, up from 29.0 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.64 children per woman.