Fertility in Middle Africa, 2009

Middle Africa
2009
Total fertility rate: 6.23
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 Middle Africa was 6.23 children per woman in 2009 — 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 29.4 years old. In total, 5,759,646 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
6.23
Births
5,759,646
Births per 1,000 people
43.8
Mean age of mothers
29.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.4%
Net reproduction rate
2.40
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.5
Population
131,619,892
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
10-149.00.7%73,163
15-19137.511.0%946,225
20-24258.020.7%1,490,991
25-29268.821.6%1,270,864
30-34248.319.9%969,814
35-39193.915.6%651,069
40-44103.88.3%294,747
45-4925.82.1%60,155
50-541.40.1%2,613