Fertility in Eastern Africa, 2018

Eastern Africa
2018
Total fertility rate: 4.47
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2018 1988, 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 4.47 children per woman in 2018 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (208 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 14,733,701 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.47
Births
14,733,701
Births per 1,000 people
34.5
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
427,413,551
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
10-142.70.3%73,701
15-1999.611.1%2,370,443
20-24207.323.2%4,162,247
25-29208.023.3%3,507,834
30-34176.519.7%2,486,451
35-39124.713.9%1,452,968
40-4460.06.7%563,652
45-4914.81.7%111,684
50-540.80.1%4,733