Fertility in Northern Africa, 2025

Northern Africa
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.88
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 Northern Africa is projected at 2.88 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 (166 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.3 years old. In total, 5,870,648 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.88
Births
5,870,648
Births per 1,000 people
21.2
Mean age of mothers
29.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
7.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.35
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
276,302,254
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
10-140.70.1%10,304
15-1936.16.3%448,205
20-24126.322.0%1,375,999
25-29165.528.8%1,673,605
30-34127.922.2%1,261,028
35-3980.113.9%772,859
40-4431.65.5%279,109
45-496.21.1%47,380
50-540.30.1%2,156