Fertility in Madagascar, 2024

Madagascar
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.91
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 Madagascar is projected at 3.91 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 (180 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.8 years old. In total, 1,013,751 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.91
Births
1,013,751
Births per 1,000 people
31.7
Mean age of mothers
27.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
21.5%
Net reproduction rate
1.71
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.8
Population
31,964,956
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
10-149.41.2%17,498
15-19128.716.4%217,467
20-24179.923.0%272,090
25-29169.421.6%227,252
30-34138.417.7%149,777
35-3997.712.5%85,971
40-4447.26.0%35,670
45-4912.01.5%7,712
50-540.60.1%317