In brief
In 2025, Australia counted 299,903 registered births, a 2.6 % rise from 2024, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The national fertility rate climbed modestly to 1.497 babies per woman—a figure still well below the 1.5 threshold and far below the 1.8 seen a decade earlier. Indigenous women had a far higher rate of 2.234 and contributed nearly nine percent of all births.
Australia counted 299,903 births in 2025, up 2.6 % from the previous year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Friday.
The total fertility rate, the average number of children a woman has, edged up to 1.497 babies per woman, still well below the historically low threshold of 1.5.
"This is the third consecutive year the total fertility rate for Australia has been below 1.5 and is well below the 1.8 babies per woman seen a decade earlier in 2015," ABS head of population statistics Beidar Cho said in a statement.
Among states and territories, Tasmania had the highest fertility rate at 1.568 babies per woman, while the Australian Capital Territory recorded the lowest at 1.283. All states have seen a decline in fertility over the past decade, Cho added.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women had a fertility rate of 2.234 babies per woman, and 26,733 births were registered among Indigenous Australians in 2025, making up 8.9 % of all births.
The number of women of childbearing age rose from 5.7 million in 2015 to 6.6 million in 2025, the ABS noted.
Despite the rise in registered births, Australia’s fertility rate remains far below the 1.8 level of a decade ago, and fertility has declined across all states and territories in the last ten years.
