Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2015

Sierra Leone
2015
Total fertility rate: 4.55
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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 4.55 children per woman in 2015 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (204 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.8 years old. In total, 243,911 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.55
Births
243,911
Births per 1,000 people
34.7
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
18.2%
Net reproduction rate
1.80
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.1
Population
7,037,655
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
10-146.60.7%2,874
15-19116.312.8%44,405
20-24201.622.2%64,960
25-29204.222.4%55,624
30-34174.119.1%39,918
35-39118.813.1%22,819
40-4459.86.6%9,551
45-4926.82.9%3,562
50-541.80.2%198