Fertility in Lesotho, 2024

Lesotho
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.66
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 Lesotho is projected at 2.66 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (143 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.9 years old. In total, 55,542 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.66
Births
55,542
Births per 1,000 people
23.8
Mean age of mothers
27.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.16
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.8
Population
2,337,423
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%93
15-1969.613.0%8,381
20-24143.126.8%15,899
25-29126.423.7%13,002
30-3495.617.9%9,777
35-3963.511.9%6,073
40-4428.15.3%2,009
45-496.31.2%299
50-540.30.1%8