Fertility in Senegal, 2025

Senegal
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.71
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 Senegal is projected at 3.71 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 (177 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.9 years old. In total, 547,717 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.71
Births
547,717
Births per 1,000 people
28.9
Mean age of mothers
29.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
10.7%
Net reproduction rate
1.72
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.1
Population
18,931,966
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
10-141.10.1%1,201
15-1958.07.8%58,545
20-24154.120.7%138,743
25-29177.023.8%141,613
30-34158.921.4%106,724
35-39121.116.3%68,277
40-4457.77.8%26,798
45-4915.02.0%5,569
50-540.80.1%250