Fertility in Mozambique, 2025

Mozambique
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.62
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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The total fertility rate of Mozambique is projected at 4.62 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (209 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.3 years old. In total, 1,304,409 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.62
Births
1,304,409
Births per 1,000 people
36.6
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
22.6%
Net reproduction rate
2.09
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.0
Population
35,631,653
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
10-147.90.9%18,281
15-19150.616.3%295,193
20-24209.122.6%347,505
25-29189.420.5%271,433
30-34158.917.2%188,834
35-39115.012.5%113,493
40-4465.47.1%52,379
45-4925.72.8%16,486
50-541.60.2%803