Fertility in Mozambique, 2009

Mozambique
2009
Total fertility rate: 5.68
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2009 1979, 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 5.68 children per woman in 2009 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (251 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 960,777 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.68
Births
960,777
Births per 1,000 people
42.9
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
20.8%
Net reproduction rate
2.32
Boys per 100 girls at birth
101.6
Population
22,391,745
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
10-147.60.7%11,071
15-19160.514.1%200,023
20-24251.322.1%264,681
25-29235.220.7%204,475
30-34203.417.9%141,964
35-39157.513.9%88,452
40-4486.27.6%36,475
45-4933.12.9%12,849
50-542.00.2%788