Fertility in Mozambique, 2017

Mozambique
2017
Total fertility rate: 5.13
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2017 1987, 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 Mozambique was 5.13 children per woman in 2017 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (224 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.6 years old. In total, 1,119,768 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.13
Births
1,119,768
Births per 1,000 people
39.8
Mean age of mothers
28.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
23.2%
Net reproduction rate
2.24
Boys per 100 girls at birth
101.9
Population
28,166,393
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
10-148.00.8%14,291
15-19165.516.1%260,029
20-24224.421.8%296,223
25-29208.320.3%229,691
30-34177.517.3%160,805
35-39131.112.8%97,403
40-4478.57.6%46,062
45-4931.93.1%14,582
50-541.90.2%680