Fertility in Mozambique, 2024

Mozambique
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.69
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 Mozambique is projected at 4.69 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (212 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.3 years old. In total, 1,282,336 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.69
Births
1,282,336
Births per 1,000 people
37.0
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
22.3%
Net reproduction rate
2.12
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.0
Population
34,631,766
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
10-147.90.8%17,844
15-19151.916.2%286,597
20-24212.122.6%344,926
25-29192.520.5%266,629
30-34161.717.2%186,077
35-39117.512.5%111,888
40-4466.67.1%51,573
45-4926.12.8%16,014
50-541.60.2%791