Fertility in Eastern Africa, 2000

Eastern Africa
2000
Total fertility rate: 5.99
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2000 1970, 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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-5 -1   2000  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Eastern Africa was 5.99 children per woman in 2000 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (260 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.3 years old. In total, 11,300,536 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.99
Births
11,300,536
Births per 1,000 people
43.5
Mean age of mothers
29.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.1%
Net reproduction rate
2.25
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.2
Population
259,491,404
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
10-147.90.7%132,361
15-19135.411.3%1,927,876
20-24258.321.5%3,086,779
25-29259.621.6%2,533,909
30-34232.619.4%1,839,687
35-39175.114.6%1,121,398
40-44100.18.3%528,043
45-4929.12.4%124,521
50-541.80.1%5,960