Fertility in Kenya, 2025

Kenya
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.12
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 Kenya is projected at 3.12 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (170 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.2 years old. In total, 1,540,813 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.12
Births
1,540,813
Births per 1,000 people
26.8
Mean age of mothers
28.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.4%
Net reproduction rate
1.43
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.1
Population
57,532,492
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%2,271
15-1952.88.4%175,006
20-24169.627.1%492,376
25-29165.626.5%409,482
30-34132.321.2%280,152
35-3978.012.5%143,735
40-4422.73.6%33,798
45-493.20.5%3,846
50-540.20.0%147