Fertility in Eastern Africa, 2017

Eastern Africa
2017
Total fertility rate: 4.52
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2017 1987, 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 4.52 children per woman in 2017 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (210 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 14,477,112 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.52
Births
14,477,112
Births per 1,000 people
34.8
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.98
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.4
Population
416,316,271
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
10-142.80.3%74,885
15-19100.711.1%2,328,577
20-24209.723.2%4,092,742
25-29210.223.2%3,447,029
30-34178.419.7%2,438,366
35-39126.313.9%1,425,712
40-4460.96.7%550,889
45-4915.71.7%113,973
50-540.90.1%4,943