Fertility in Middle Africa, 2018

Middle Africa
2018
Total fertility rate: 5.81
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2018 1988, 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 5.81 children per woman in 2018 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (256 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.4 years old. In total, 7,268,116 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.81
Births
7,268,116
Births per 1,000 people
41.1
Mean age of mothers
29.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.5%
Net reproduction rate
2.45
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.6
Population
176,708,414
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
10-146.00.5%66,120
15-19123.610.6%1,129,145
20-24242.820.9%1,893,433
25-29255.722.0%1,678,436
30-34236.820.4%1,294,037
35-39179.315.4%792,311
40-4493.28.0%339,063
45-4923.42.0%72,309
50-541.30.1%3,251