Fertility in Middle Africa, 2015

Middle Africa
2015
Total fertility rate: 5.96
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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 5.96 children per woman in 2015 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (261 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.5 years old. In total, 6,720,831 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.96
Births
6,720,831
Births per 1,000 people
42.0
Mean age of mothers
29.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.9%
Net reproduction rate
2.47
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.5
Population
160,026,469
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
10-146.60.6%64,917
15-19128.410.8%1,067,523
20-24247.720.8%1,744,797
25-29260.921.9%1,544,212
30-34242.320.3%1,173,391
35-39184.715.5%730,110
40-4496.88.1%323,842
45-4924.42.0%69,002
50-541.30.1%3,040