Fertility in Malawi, 2025

Malawi
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.53
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 Malawi is projected at 3.53 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 (184 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.6 years old. In total, 685,330 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.53
Births
685,330
Births per 1,000 people
30.8
Mean age of mothers
27.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
21.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.66
Boys per 100 girls at birth
101.4
Population
22,216,120
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%2,614
15-19112.916.0%149,983
20-24183.726.0%204,354
25-29156.522.2%145,341
30-34122.817.4%98,349
35-3986.812.3%61,282
40-4433.94.8%20,131
45-497.81.1%3,196
50-540.30.0%85