Fertility in Eastern Africa, 2015

Eastern Africa
2015
Total fertility rate: 4.66
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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 Eastern Africa was 4.66 children per woman in 2015 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (215 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 14,039,136 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.66
Births
14,039,136
Births per 1,000 people
35.5
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.4%
Net reproduction rate
2.02
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
395,330,796
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
10-143.20.3%81,687
15-19105.311.3%2,298,523
20-24215.123.1%3,960,592
25-29213.822.9%3,319,792
30-34182.819.6%2,353,070
35-39129.213.9%1,360,400
40-4464.36.9%541,484
45-4917.51.9%118,196
50-541.00.1%5,394