Fertility in Nigeria, 2024

Nigeria
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.38
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 Nigeria is projected at 4.38 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 (210 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.2 years old. In total, 7,560,407 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.38
Births
7,560,407
Births per 1,000 people
32.5
Mean age of mothers
29.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.2%
Net reproduction rate
1.69
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.8
Population
232,679,478
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
10-142.30.3%33,699
15-1984.09.6%1,071,715
20-24197.122.5%2,106,455
25-29209.523.9%1,830,316
30-34183.520.9%1,344,514
35-39122.013.9%765,434
40-4458.46.7%320,281
45-4918.42.1%83,869
50-541.20.1%4,125