Fertility in Eritrea, 2024

Eritrea
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.68
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 Eritrea is projected at 3.68 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 (180 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 101,539 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.68
Births
101,539
Births per 1,000 people
28.7
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
13.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.69
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.2
Population
3,535,603
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
10-141.30.2%287
15-1965.28.8%13,798
20-24167.422.7%30,027
25-29180.224.5%26,759
30-34160.821.8%17,212
35-39108.714.7%9,536
40-4444.46.0%3,282
45-498.61.2%611
50-540.40.1%25