Fertility in Benin, 2024

Benin
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.48
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 Benin is projected at 4.48 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 (230 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 483,336 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.48
Births
483,336
Births per 1,000 people
33.4
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
12.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.88
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.2
Population
14,462,724
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
10-141.60.2%1,410
15-1976.48.5%57,887
20-24208.823.3%134,160
25-29230.025.7%128,207
30-34189.221.1%90,078
35-39120.413.4%48,953
40-4453.46.0%18,142
45-4915.71.8%4,279
50-541.00.1%224