Fertility in Sierra Leone, 1980

Sierra Leone
1980
Total fertility rate: 6.56
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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-5 -1   1980  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Sierra Leone was 6.56 children per woman in 1980 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (279 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.7 years old. In total, 153,258 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
6.56
Births
153,258
Births per 1,000 people
46.8
Mean age of mothers
28.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
19.5%
Net reproduction rate
2.06
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.4
Population
3,272,089
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
10-1423.21.8%4,376
15-19185.214.1%29,897
20-24274.721.0%37,199
25-29279.421.3%31,658
30-34230.117.5%22,952
35-39181.713.9%16,719
40-4495.17.3%7,580
45-4939.23.0%2,719
50-542.60.2%159