Fertility in Eritrea, 2025

Eritrea
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.61
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 Eritrea is projected at 3.61 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 (177 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 103,276 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.61
Births
103,276
Births per 1,000 people
28.6
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
13.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.67
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.2
Population
3,607,003
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%280
15-1964.18.9%13,696
20-24165.022.8%30,771
25-29177.224.5%27,357
30-34158.021.8%17,703
35-39106.014.7%9,651
40-4443.36.0%3,210
45-498.11.1%584
50-540.40.1%24