Fertility in Middle Africa, 2008

Middle Africa
2008
Total fertility rate: 6.25
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 Middle Africa was 6.25 children per woman in 2008 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (269 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.5 years old. In total, 5,590,856 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
6.25
Births
5,590,856
Births per 1,000 people
43.8
Mean age of mothers
29.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.4%
Net reproduction rate
2.46
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.5
Population
127,557,670
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
10-149.30.7%74,052
15-19137.211.0%915,537
20-24257.420.6%1,437,160
25-29268.721.5%1,224,845
30-34249.320.0%948,258
35-39195.615.7%641,376
40-44104.78.4%288,560
45-4925.92.1%58,524
50-541.40.1%2,538