Fertility in Mali, 2008

Mali
2008
Total fertility rate: 6.62
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2008 1978, 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 Mali was 6.62 children per woman in 2008 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (280 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.2 years old. In total, 705,248 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
6.62
Births
705,248
Births per 1,000 people
47.2
Mean age of mothers
29.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
18.6%
Net reproduction rate
2.56
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.6
Population
14,940,782
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
10-1416.31.2%14,817
15-19166.712.6%131,419
20-24272.020.5%186,112
25-29280.421.1%161,278
30-34252.619.0%112,809
35-39195.314.7%64,660
40-44107.78.1%26,900
45-4934.22.6%6,889
50-542.10.2%361