Fertility in Niger, 2025

Niger
2025
Total fertility rate: 5.79
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Niger is projected at 5.79 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (261 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 1,138,168 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
5.79
Births
1,138,168
Births per 1,000 people
40.8
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
18.8%
Net reproduction rate
2.41
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.0
Population
27,917,831
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
10-143.00.3%5,498
15-19137.211.9%214,204
20-24254.822.0%323,261
25-29261.422.6%262,462
30-34230.419.9%179,683
35-39156.613.5%97,424
40-4481.67.1%42,053
45-4930.82.7%12,919
50-542.00.2%664