Fertility in Lesotho, 2025

Lesotho
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.64
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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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Lesotho is projected at 2.64 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 (142 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.9 years old. In total, 55,434 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.64
Births
55,434
Births per 1,000 people
23.5
Mean age of mothers
27.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.2%
Net reproduction rate
1.15
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.8
Population
2,363,325
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%95
15-1969.013.1%8,442
20-24141.926.9%15,975
25-29125.623.8%12,881
30-3494.517.9%9,537
35-3962.411.8%6,117
40-4427.35.2%2,066
45-496.21.2%315
50-540.30.1%8