Fertility in Afghanistan, 2024

Afghanistan
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.76
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Afghanistan is projected at 4.76 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (243 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.4 years old. In total, 1,492,956 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.76
Births
1,492,956
Births per 1,000 people
35.0
Mean age of mothers
30.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
9.6%
Net reproduction rate
2.12
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.1
Population
42,647,492
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-141.00.1%2,662
15-1961.56.4%143,175
20-24170.117.8%355,462
25-29243.425.5%432,826
30-34217.322.8%305,732
35-39156.516.4%168,337
40-4479.58.3%67,404
45-4923.42.5%16,545
50-541.40.1%816