Fertility in Senegal, 2024

Senegal
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.77
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Senegal is projected at 3.77 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (179 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.9 years old. In total, 539,970 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.77
Births
539,970
Births per 1,000 people
29.2
Mean age of mothers
29.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
10.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.74
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.1
Population
18,501,984
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
10-141.20.2%1,273
15-1959.17.8%58,656
20-24155.820.6%138,428
25-29179.023.7%138,784
30-34161.121.4%103,827
35-39123.016.3%67,062
40-4459.17.8%26,230
45-4915.32.0%5,464
50-540.80.1%245