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If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in Saudi Arabia would have about 2.27 children, above the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has risen by 0.10 children per woman. About 568 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 16.1 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 1.09, above the 1.0 replacement mark. Women are having children at a mean age of 30.3 years. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.72 children per woman.
Fertility rate
2.27 children/woman
Birth rate
16.1 per 1,000 people
Total births
567.9K
Mean age at birth
30.3 years
Saudi Arabia's fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 7.7 children per woman in 1964 to 2.27 today, still above the 2.1 replacement level. This decline is projected to continue, dropping below replacement to 1.72 by 2100.