Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2016

Sierra Leone
2016
Total fertility rate: 4.47
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2016 1986, 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 4.47 children per woman in 2016 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (202 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 246,383 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.47
Births
246,383
Births per 1,000 people
34.2
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.7%
Net reproduction rate
1.80
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.2
Population
7,205,328
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
10-145.60.6%2,481
15-19111.212.4%43,635
20-24199.922.4%66,452
25-29201.622.6%56,491
30-34172.019.2%40,660
35-39118.613.3%23,474
40-4458.16.5%9,562
45-4925.22.8%3,436
50-541.70.2%189