Fertility in Cameroon, 2018

Cameroon
2018
Total fertility rate: 4.74
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2018 1988, 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 4.74 children per woman in 2018 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (225 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.4 years old. In total, 915,335 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.74
Births
915,335
Births per 1,000 people
36.9
Mean age of mothers
28.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.5%
Net reproduction rate
2.06
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.1
Population
24,806,383
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
10-144.40.5%6,722
15-19117.112.3%151,247
20-24214.222.6%240,506
25-29224.523.7%224,692
30-34197.620.8%168,073
35-39131.113.8%91,836
40-4450.15.3%27,813
45-499.81.0%4,313
50-540.40.0%134