Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2009

Sierra Leone
2009
Total fertility rate: 5.45
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2009 1979, 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 5.45 children per woman in 2009 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (230 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.3 years old. In total, 241,335 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.45
Births
241,335
Births per 1,000 people
39.9
Mean age of mothers
29.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.9%
Net reproduction rate
2.01
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
6,055,646
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
10-1411.91.1%4,452
15-19135.712.5%43,111
20-24228.120.9%61,595
25-29230.221.1%52,412
30-34203.518.7%39,055
35-39152.314.0%24,403
40-4490.48.3%12,150
45-4935.43.3%3,943
50-542.40.2%214