Fertility in Mozambique, 2008

Mozambique
2008
Total fertility rate: 5.60
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2008 1978, 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 Mozambique was 5.60 children per woman in 2008 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (248 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 922,442 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.60
Births
922,442
Births per 1,000 people
42.3
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
20.9%
Net reproduction rate
2.26
Boys per 100 girls at birth
101.6
Population
21,819,036
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
10-148.20.7%11,575
15-19158.614.2%192,851
20-24247.922.1%254,237
25-29230.920.6%196,126
30-34200.217.9%135,484
35-39154.113.8%83,366
40-4484.47.5%34,758
45-4933.23.0%13,227
50-542.10.2%815