Fertility in Nigeria, 2025

Nigeria
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.30
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 Nigeria is projected at 4.30 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 (206 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.2 years old. In total, 7,640,590 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.30
Births
7,640,590
Births per 1,000 people
32.2
Mean age of mothers
29.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.66
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.8
Population
237,527,782
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
10-142.10.2%31,669
15-1981.99.5%1,077,313
20-24194.822.7%2,170,254
25-29206.524.0%1,855,551
30-34180.020.9%1,346,169
35-39119.013.9%758,167
40-4456.46.6%314,691
45-4917.62.0%82,669
50-541.10.1%4,107