Fertility in Egypt, 2025

Egypt
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.71
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Egypt is projected at 2.71 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (176 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.0 years old. In total, 2,450,027 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.71
Births
2,450,027
Births per 1,000 people
20.7
Mean age of mothers
28.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
8.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.29
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
118,365,994
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%4,115
15-1940.37.5%217,388
20-24141.126.1%684,729
25-29176.332.6%786,503
30-34106.319.6%449,636
35-3952.39.7%219,956
40-4420.33.8%75,866
45-493.50.7%11,200
50-540.20.0%635