Fertility in Egypt, 2024

Egypt
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.74
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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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-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Egypt is projected at 2.74 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (177 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.0 years old. In total, 2,437,410 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.74
Births
2,437,410
Births per 1,000 people
20.9
Mean age of mothers
28.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
8.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.30
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
116,538,258
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
10-140.70.1%3,998
15-1941.17.5%216,213
20-24143.526.3%685,363
25-29177.032.4%773,891
30-34107.219.6%454,059
35-3952.99.7%219,545
40-4420.23.7%73,140
45-493.50.6%10,601
50-540.20.0%603