Fertility in Madagascar, 2025

Madagascar
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.84
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 Madagascar is projected at 3.84 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 (177 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.8 years old. In total, 1,023,320 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.84
Births
1,023,320
Births per 1,000 people
31.3
Mean age of mothers
27.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
21.5%
Net reproduction rate
1.68
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.8
Population
32,740,678
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
10-149.11.2%17,089
15-19127.416.5%220,180
20-24177.023.0%271,796
25-29166.721.7%230,458
30-34135.717.6%153,101
35-3995.712.4%87,083
40-4445.96.0%35,555
45-4911.71.5%7,741
50-540.60.1%318