Fertility in Botswana, 2024

Botswana
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.70
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 Botswana is projected at 2.70 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (138 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.7 years old. In total, 61,418 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.70
Births
61,418
Births per 1,000 people
24.4
Mean age of mothers
28.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
10.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.26
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.2
Population
2,521,139
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
10-140.40.1%55
15-1953.59.8%6,529
20-24137.725.4%16,978
25-29128.423.7%15,879
30-34109.920.3%12,833
35-3979.314.6%6,975
40-4428.65.3%1,896
45-494.90.9%264
50-540.20.0%7