Fertility in Malawi, 2024

Malawi
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.59
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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The total fertility rate of Malawi is projected at 3.59 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 (186 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.6 years old. In total, 674,407 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.59
Births
674,407
Births per 1,000 people
31.1
Mean age of mothers
27.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
21.8%
Net reproduction rate
1.68
Boys per 100 girls at birth
101.4
Population
21,655,286
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
10-141.90.3%2,715
15-19113.315.8%146,917
20-24185.825.8%199,112
25-29158.922.1%142,920
30-34125.517.5%98,077
35-3989.112.4%61,300
40-4435.75.0%20,133
45-498.41.2%3,144
50-540.30.0%88