Fertility rate in South Asia

The fertility rate in South Asia was 1.98 births per woman in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1960.

Measure: Fertility rate (UN estimates) Unit: Births per woman Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
South Asia is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
South Asia, 2024 1.98 Births per woman
Change from 2023 −0.7% 2023: 2.00 births per woman
World, 2024 2.19 births per woman Official aggregate

Fertility rate in South Asia over time

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Births per woman. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Fertility rate (UN estimates) (births per woman), 2000 to 2024
Period South AsiaWorld
2024 1.98 births per woman 2.19 births per woman
2023 2.00 births per woman 2.20 births per woman
2022 2.01 births per woman 2.22 births per woman
2021 2.03 births per woman 2.25 births per woman
2020 2.06 births per woman 2.28 births per woman
2019 2.12 births per woman 2.35 births per woman
2018 2.18 births per woman 2.39 births per woman
2017 2.19 births per woman 2.46 births per woman
2016 2.27 births per woman 2.49 births per woman
2015 2.28 births per woman 2.49 births per woman
2014 2.28 births per woman 2.52 births per woman
2013 2.38 births per woman 2.52 births per woman
2012 2.44 births per woman 2.56 births per woman
2011 2.50 births per woman 2.55 births per woman
2010 2.57 births per woman 2.57 births per woman
2009 2.64 births per woman 2.59 births per woman
2008 2.69 births per woman 2.60 births per woman
2007 2.76 births per woman 2.60 births per woman
2006 2.85 births per woman 2.61 births per woman
2005 2.94 births per woman 2.61 births per woman
2004 3.03 births per woman 2.63 births per woman
2003 3.10 births per woman 2.64 births per woman
2002 3.20 births per woman 2.66 births per woman
2001 3.28 births per woman 2.69 births per woman
2000 3.33 births per woman 2.73 births per woman

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.7% from 2.00 births per woman in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 2.28 births per woman, the figure has changed by −13.3%.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 2.19 births per woman.

Source and dates

Original producer
United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SP.DYN.TFRT.IN · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for South Asia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects