Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2013

Sierra Leone
2013
Total fertility rate: 4.87
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2013 1983, 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 4.87 children per woman in 2013 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (215 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 245,736 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.87
Births
245,736
Births per 1,000 people
36.6
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
18.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.89
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.1
Population
6,714,051
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
10-147.90.8%3,306
15-19125.312.8%45,088
20-24212.521.8%64,432
25-29214.922.0%55,295
30-34185.219.0%39,992
35-39128.513.2%23,296
40-4469.07.1%10,386
45-4929.73.0%3,733
50-542.00.2%206