Fertility in Sao Tome and Principe, 2025

Sao Tome and Principe
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.53
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 Sao Tome and Principe is projected at 3.53 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (169 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.4 years old. In total, 6,688 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.53
Births
6,688
Births per 1,000 people
27.8
Mean age of mothers
28.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.4%
Net reproduction rate
1.68
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.7
Population
240,254
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
15-1983.811.9%1,166
20-24168.823.9%2,014
25-29166.823.6%1,505
30-34146.920.8%1,073
35-3994.313.4%633
40-4440.25.7%266
45-494.30.6%23
50-540.00.0%0