Fertility in Burkina Faso, 2025

Burkina Faso
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.00
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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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Burkina Faso is projected at 4.00 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 (190 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 741,692 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.00
Births
741,692
Births per 1,000 people
30.8
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.4%
Net reproduction rate
1.72
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.1
Population
24,074,580
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
10-141.30.2%2,045
15-1983.510.4%114,399
20-24176.422.0%198,835
25-29190.223.7%178,862
30-34163.320.4%129,402
35-39117.214.6%80,115
40-4453.16.6%30,684
45-4915.21.9%7,049
50-540.80.1%299