Fertility in Chad, 2019

Chad
2019
Total fertility rate: 6.41
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2019 1989, 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 6.41 children per woman in 2019 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (286 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.2 years old. In total, 739,415 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
6.41
Births
739,415
Births per 1,000 people
44.3
Mean age of mothers
29.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.0%
Net reproduction rate
2.44
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.2
Population
16,685,223
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
10-145.70.4%6,109
15-19143.311.2%125,418
20-24279.821.8%202,412
25-29285.922.3%170,331
30-34252.419.7%120,110
35-39185.114.4%72,579
40-44101.77.9%34,529
45-4927.22.1%7,599
50-541.50.1%329