Fertility in Afghanistan, 2025

Afghanistan
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.66
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Afghanistan is projected at 4.66 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (239 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.5 years old. In total, 1,507,838 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.66
Births
1,507,838
Births per 1,000 people
34.4
Mean age of mothers
30.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
9.3%
Net reproduction rate
2.08
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.1
Population
43,844,112
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
10-140.90.1%2,506
15-1958.76.3%139,578
20-24163.417.5%348,453
25-29238.825.6%439,117
30-34213.922.9%316,313
35-39154.816.6%174,946
40-4478.98.5%69,319
45-4923.02.5%16,784
50-541.40.1%823