Fertility Intentions Among Reproductive-Age Women - Three Provinces, China, 2023

Low fertility rates have become the most important risk affecting the balanced development of the population in China.

About 80.0% of childless women had fertility intentions, 31.9% of women with one child and 11.3% of women with two children intended to have a second and third child, respectively. Women with one child who had an agricultural Hukou, were younger than 30 years old, were remarried, and had received a deduction or reimbursement for childbirth expenses during their first delivery were more willing to have a second child. Women with two children who had an agricultural Hukou and a upper-middle personal income, were self-employed, and had two daughters were more willing to have a third child.

In China, women's willingness to have more children is not optimistic. To increase their desire for more children, creating a more favorable fertility environment for reproductive-age women and providing more preferential fertility policies for pregnant women will be necessary.