Fertility in Mauritania, 2013

Mauritania
2013
Total fertility rate: 5.32
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2013 1983, 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 5.32 children per woman in 2013 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (223 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 30.3 years old. In total, 143,806 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.32
Births
143,806
Births per 1,000 people
38.5
Mean age of mothers
30.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.0%
Net reproduction rate
2.41
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
3,734,318
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
10-1413.11.2%3,025
15-19101.09.5%20,200
20-24191.218.0%32,698
25-29222.620.9%32,388
30-34217.820.5%26,305
35-39179.116.8%18,076
40-44103.59.7%8,689
45-4933.83.2%2,304
50-542.20.2%119