Fertility in Mauritania, 2024

Mauritania
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.63
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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 Mauritania is projected at 4.63 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (193 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.2 years old. In total, 175,914 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.63
Births
175,914
Births per 1,000 people
34.0
Mean age of mothers
30.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.0%
Net reproduction rate
2.14
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
5,169,395
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
10-1413.11.4%4,272
15-1987.69.5%24,559
20-24165.917.9%39,091
25-29193.320.9%38,923
30-34189.020.4%32,481
35-39155.516.8%22,656
40-4489.99.7%10,859
45-4929.23.2%2,914
50-541.90.2%157