Fertility in Africa, 2024

Africa
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.02
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Africa is projected at 4.02 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 (193 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.9 years old. In total, 46,621,058 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.02
Births
46,621,058
Births per 1,000 people
30.8
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.76
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.6
Population
1,515,140,849
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
10-142.70.3%243,418
15-1984.410.5%6,676,368
20-24183.722.9%12,500,351
25-29193.124.0%11,368,000
30-34163.220.3%8,425,197
35-39111.813.9%5,045,798
40-4451.06.3%1,951,980
45-4912.51.6%392,661
50-540.70.1%17,292