Fertility in Middle Africa, 2025

Middle Africa
2025
Total fertility rate: 5.37
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Middle Africa is projected at 5.37 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (238 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.4 years old. In total, 8,456,267 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
5.37
Births
8,456,267
Births per 1,000 people
38.5
Mean age of mothers
29.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.7%
Net reproduction rate
2.33
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.7
Population
219,525,087
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
10-145.60.5%77,711
15-19113.810.6%1,328,324
20-24224.920.9%2,171,026
25-29237.822.1%1,938,668
30-34219.920.5%1,515,301
35-39164.815.3%947,487
40-4485.07.9%395,406
45-4921.02.0%78,813
50-541.10.1%3,523