Fertility in Liberia, 2025

Liberia
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.79
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 Liberia is projected at 3.79 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, 173,467 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.79
Births
173,467
Births per 1,000 people
30.3
Mean age of mothers
28.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
23.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.67
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.8
Population
5,731,206
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
10-144.20.5%1,460
15-19123.716.3%40,133
20-24170.122.4%46,319
25-29156.220.6%34,765
30-34136.518.0%24,898
35-39110.514.6%17,915
40-4446.16.1%6,611
45-4911.01.4%1,320
50-540.40.1%42