Fertility in Botswana, 2025

Botswana
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.66
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 Botswana is projected at 2.66 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (136 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.6 years old. In total, 61,186 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.66
Births
61,186
Births per 1,000 people
23.9
Mean age of mothers
28.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
10.4%
Net reproduction rate
1.24
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.2
Population
2,562,122
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
15-1952.69.8%6,380
20-24135.825.4%16,722
25-29126.623.7%15,478
30-34108.320.2%13,095
35-3978.214.6%7,235
40-4428.25.3%1,947
45-494.70.9%266
50-540.20.0%8