Fertility in Mauritania, 2009

Mauritania
2009
Total fertility rate: 5.41
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 Mauritania was 5.41 children per woman in 2009 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (226 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 30.3 years old. In total, 128,109 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.41
Births
128,109
Births per 1,000 people
39.0
Mean age of mothers
30.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.4%
Net reproduction rate
2.43
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.4
Population
3,284,448
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%2,793
15-19102.29.4%18,502
20-24194.418.0%29,465
25-29226.420.9%28,475
30-34221.420.5%22,997
35-39182.016.8%16,055
40-44105.49.7%7,734
45-4934.53.2%1,989
50-542.20.2%100