Fertility in Senegal, 2015

Senegal
2015
Total fertility rate: 4.75
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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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The total fertility rate of Senegal was 4.75 children per woman in 2015 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (219 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 30.3 years old. In total, 503,549 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.75
Births
503,549
Births per 1,000 people
34.5
Mean age of mothers
30.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.1%
Net reproduction rate
2.14
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.4
Population
14,593,330
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
10-141.70.2%1,469
15-1973.67.7%56,034
20-24182.619.2%120,749
25-29218.923.0%126,866
30-34204.121.5%100,523
35-39155.616.4%62,693
40-4489.59.4%28,765
45-4924.12.5%6,160
50-541.40.1%291