Fertility in Congo, 2025

Congo
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.05
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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The total fertility rate of Congo is projected at 4.05 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (183 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.6 years old. In total, 195,536 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.05
Births
195,536
Births per 1,000 people
30.2
Mean age of mothers
28.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
19.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.87
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.6
Population
6,484,437
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
10-145.00.6%2,072
15-19105.913.1%37,190
20-24178.222.1%49,956
25-29183.322.7%42,439
30-34157.519.5%32,065
35-39115.914.4%21,679
40-4451.06.3%8,533
45-4910.61.3%1,546
50-540.40.1%52