Fertility in Chad, 1980

Chad
1980
Total fertility rate: 6.91
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
1980 1950, 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 Chad was 6.91 children per woman in 1980 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (310 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.0 years old. In total, 223,597 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
6.91
Births
223,597
Births per 1,000 people
49.5
Mean age of mothers
28.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
21.4%
Net reproduction rate
2.26
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.8
Population
4,515,452
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
10-1422.31.6%6,209
15-19204.414.8%47,865
20-24310.022.4%60,242
25-29303.822.0%48,977
30-34257.118.6%31,916
35-39184.113.3%19,265
40-4480.35.8%7,553
45-4917.71.3%1,502
50-540.90.1%70