Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2008

Sierra Leone
2008
Total fertility rate: 5.56
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2008 1978, 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 Sierra Leone was 5.56 children per woman in 2008 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (233 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.3 years old. In total, 239,259 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.56
Births
239,259
Births per 1,000 people
40.6
Mean age of mothers
29.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.9%
Net reproduction rate
2.03
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.4
Population
5,894,722
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
10-1413.21.2%4,788
15-19138.712.5%42,779
20-24230.220.7%60,486
25-29233.521.0%51,661
30-34206.718.6%38,553
35-39157.914.2%24,597
40-4493.18.4%12,178
45-4937.13.3%3,998
50-542.50.2%219