Fertility in Senegal, 1980

Senegal
1980
Total fertility rate: 7.29
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
1980 1950, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of Senegal was 7.29 children per woman in 1980 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (304 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.8 years old. In total, 282,125 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
7.29
Births
282,125
Births per 1,000 people
48.3
Mean age of mothers
29.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.5%
Net reproduction rate
2.52
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
5,845,638
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
10-1410.00.7%3,489
15-19160.311.0%46,456
20-24291.120.0%69,715
25-29304.320.9%60,742
30-34282.919.4%47,774
35-39230.715.8%32,612
40-44139.69.6%17,260
45-4936.62.5%3,896
50-542.00.1%185