Fertility in Africa, 2050

Africa
2050
Total fertility rate: 2.79
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2050 2020, 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   2050  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Africa is projected at 2.79 children per woman in 2050 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (142 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.8 years old. In total, 55,261,305 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.79
Births
55,261,305
Births per 1,000 people
22.4
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.28
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.5
Population
2,466,647,618
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
10-141.20.2%148,827
15-1954.29.7%6,248,582
20-24129.223.1%14,100,904
25-29142.425.5%14,455,154
30-34118.821.2%11,114,969
35-3975.513.5%6,438,306
40-4431.05.5%2,317,767
45-496.61.2%418,446
50-540.30.1%18,335