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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Indonesia would have about 2.08 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has fallen by 0.09 children per woman. About 4.4 million babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 15.4 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.97, just under the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 29.1 years, up from 28.0 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.73 children per woman.
Fertility rate
2.08 children/woman
Birth rate
15.4 per 1,000 people
Total births
4.4M
Mean age at birth
29.1 years
Indonesia's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 5.6 children per woman in 1965 to 2.08 today, below the 2.1 replacement level.