Fertility in Niger, 2024

Niger
2024
Total fertility rate: 5.94
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Niger is projected at 5.94 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (267 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 1,119,695 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
5.94
Births
1,119,695
Births per 1,000 people
41.4
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
19.0%
Net reproduction rate
2.46
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.0
Population
27,032,412
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
10-143.20.3%5,816
15-19141.611.9%213,163
20-24260.722.0%317,525
25-29267.122.5%255,549
30-34235.519.8%175,409
35-39161.613.6%96,941
40-4484.17.1%41,877
45-4931.62.7%12,759
50-542.00.2%656