Fertility in Gambia, 2025

Gambia
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.80
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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The total fertility rate of Gambia is projected at 3.80 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 (194 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.8 years old. In total, 82,555 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.80
Births
82,555
Births per 1,000 people
29.3
Mean age of mothers
29.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
10.2%
Net reproduction rate
1.71
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.2
Population
2,822,093
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
10-140.70.1%130
15-1954.17.1%8,418
20-24153.720.2%20,177
25-29194.425.5%22,498
30-34172.822.7%17,525
35-39120.215.8%9,847
40-4452.16.8%3,289
45-4913.31.7%640
50-540.70.1%31