Fertility in Cameroon, 2008

Cameroon
2008
Total fertility rate: 5.29
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2008 1978, 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 5.29 children per woman in 2008 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (251 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.5 years old. In total, 755,313 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.29
Births
755,313
Births per 1,000 people
40.7
Mean age of mothers
28.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.5%
Net reproduction rate
2.15
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.6
Population
18,574,056
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
10-149.20.9%10,508
15-19128.712.1%131,837
20-24235.422.2%207,115
25-29250.923.7%183,879
30-34214.620.2%126,230
35-39144.213.6%68,257
40-4462.75.9%23,079
45-4914.21.3%4,228
50-540.70.1%177