Fertility in Mauritania, 2025

Mauritania
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.56
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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 4.56 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (191 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.2 years old. In total, 178,900 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.56
Births
178,900
Births per 1,000 people
33.7
Mean age of mothers
30.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.0%
Net reproduction rate
2.12
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
5,315,065
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%4,367
15-1986.39.5%24,970
20-24163.517.9%39,795
25-29190.620.9%39,437
30-34186.420.4%33,060
35-39153.316.8%23,039
40-4488.69.7%11,102
45-4928.83.2%2,968
50-541.90.2%160