Fertility in Benin, 2025

Benin
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.42
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

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The total fertility rate of Benin is projected at 4.42 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 (228 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.0 years old. In total, 489,564 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.42
Births
489,564
Births per 1,000 people
33.0
Mean age of mothers
29.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.86
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.2
Population
14,814,460
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
10-141.50.2%1,349
15-1975.28.5%58,493
20-24206.523.4%136,301
25-29227.525.7%129,461
30-34186.921.1%91,864
35-39118.113.4%49,330
40-4451.85.9%18,224
45-4915.31.7%4,321
50-541.00.1%224