Fertility in Malawi, 2009

Malawi
2009
Total fertility rate: 5.45
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2009 1979, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of Malawi was 5.45 children per woman in 2009 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (252 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.8 years old. In total, 600,959 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.45
Births
600,959
Births per 1,000 people
41.7
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
19.9%
Net reproduction rate
2.32
Boys per 100 girls at birth
100.5
Population
14,395,788
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
10-144.30.4%3,944
15-19146.413.4%119,305
20-24252.523.1%183,740
25-29228.320.9%138,313
30-34200.618.4%82,245
35-39149.613.7%45,272
40-4480.37.3%21,545
45-4929.22.7%6,312
50-541.80.2%284