Fertility in Mauritania, 2008

Mauritania
2008
Total fertility rate: 5.44
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 Mauritania was 5.44 children per woman in 2008 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (228 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 30.3 years old. In total, 124,382 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.44
Births
124,382
Births per 1,000 people
39.1
Mean age of mothers
30.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.5%
Net reproduction rate
2.44
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
3,183,269
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
10-1413.41.2%2,753
15-19102.99.5%18,019
20-24195.518.0%28,629
25-29227.620.9%27,504
30-34222.720.5%22,307
35-39183.116.8%15,680
40-44106.19.8%7,496
45-4934.73.2%1,900
50-542.30.2%95