Fertility in Ethiopia, 2024

Ethiopia
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.91
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 Ethiopia is projected at 3.91 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 (197 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.0 years old. In total, 4,155,828 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.91
Births
4,155,828
Births per 1,000 people
31.5
Mean age of mothers
29.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.8%
Net reproduction rate
1.77
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
132,059,767
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
10-140.60.1%4,727
15-1968.28.7%491,565
20-24185.123.6%1,206,046
25-29197.025.1%1,114,784
30-34161.920.7%761,735
35-39111.314.2%409,447
40-4449.96.4%143,360
45-499.51.2%23,245
50-540.40.1%919