Fertility in Gabon, 2025

Gabon
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.54
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Gabon is projected at 3.54 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 (165 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.5 years old. In total, 69,096 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.54
Births
69,096
Births per 1,000 people
26.6
Mean age of mothers
28.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.5%
Net reproduction rate
1.66
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.1
Population
2,593,130
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
10-143.20.5%459
15-1987.312.4%10,684
20-24157.122.2%16,588
25-29164.723.3%15,587
30-34143.020.2%13,183
35-39107.115.1%9,305
40-4439.55.6%2,989
45-494.80.7%296
50-540.10.0%3