Fertility in Cabo Verde, 2015

Cabo Verde
2015
Total fertility rate: 1.97
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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   2015  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Cabo Verde was 1.97 children per woman in 2015 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (92 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.0 years old. In total, 8,946 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.97
Births
8,946
Births per 1,000 people
17.5
Mean age of mothers
28.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.94
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
512,394
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
10-140.90.2%21
15-1958.014.6%1,445
20-2492.323.3%2,513
25-2991.623.1%2,270
30-3479.320.0%1,604
35-3952.413.2%821
40-4419.44.9%250
45-491.90.5%24
50-540.00.0%0