Fertility in Cameroon, 2000

Cameroon
2000
Total fertility rate: 5.51
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2000 1970, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of Cameroon was 5.51 children per woman in 2000 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (257 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.5 years old. In total, 609,606 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.51
Births
609,606
Births per 1,000 people
40.9
Mean age of mothers
28.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
19.1%
Net reproduction rate
2.14
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.8
Population
14,912,631
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
10-1410.71.0%10,420
15-19139.912.7%116,366
20-24249.822.6%170,811
25-29256.723.3%142,820
30-34211.619.2%93,333
35-39145.913.2%51,176
40-4468.86.2%19,923
45-4919.31.7%4,546
50-541.10.1%214