Fertility in Middle Africa, 2024

Middle Africa
2024
Total fertility rate: 5.45
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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 Middle Africa is projected at 5.45 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (241 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.4 years old. In total, 8,295,998 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
5.45
Births
8,295,998
Births per 1,000 people
39.0
Mean age of mothers
29.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.7%
Net reproduction rate
2.36
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.7
Population
212,915,636
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
10-145.70.5%77,295
15-19115.910.6%1,304,514
20-24228.421.0%2,133,555
25-29241.022.1%1,905,862
30-34222.520.4%1,480,415
35-39167.315.4%927,762
40-4486.37.9%385,789
45-4921.32.0%77,306
50-541.20.1%3,492