Fertility in Gabon, 2024

Gabon
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.59
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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The total fertility rate of Gabon is projected at 3.59 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 (167 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.5 years old. In total, 68,875 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.59
Births
68,875
Births per 1,000 people
27.1
Mean age of mothers
28.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.68
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.1
Population
2,538,952
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
10-143.30.5%465
15-1989.512.5%10,538
20-24158.822.1%16,234
25-29167.123.3%15,694
30-34145.420.3%13,413
35-39108.215.1%9,254
40-4440.75.7%2,981
45-495.00.7%292
50-540.10.0%3