Fertility in Africa, 2025

Africa
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.95
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 Africa is projected at 3.95 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 (191 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.9 years old. In total, 47,080,237 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.95
Births
47,080,237
Births per 1,000 people
30.4
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.74
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.6
Population
1,549,867,579
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
10-142.60.3%238,593
15-1982.910.5%6,733,726
20-24181.222.9%12,683,126
25-29190.724.1%11,494,813
30-34161.020.4%8,485,798
35-39109.813.9%5,069,470
40-4449.86.3%1,962,915
45-4912.11.5%394,444
50-540.70.1%17,345