Fertility in Rwanda, 2025

Rwanda
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.59
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

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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Rwanda is projected at 3.59 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 (180 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.6 years old. In total, 404,109 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.59
Births
404,109
Births per 1,000 people
27.7
Mean age of mothers
30.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
6.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.67
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.6
Population
14,569,340
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
10-140.30.0%218
15-1930.24.2%24,078
20-24136.519.0%98,889
25-29179.825.0%102,605
30-34174.124.2%88,841
35-39128.117.8%61,032
40-4459.78.3%25,330
45-499.31.3%3,031
50-540.40.1%87