Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2017

Sierra Leone
2017
Total fertility rate: 4.39
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2017 1987, 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 4.39 children per woman in 2017 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (198 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.9 years old. In total, 249,479 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.39
Births
249,479
Births per 1,000 people
33.8
Mean age of mothers
28.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.79
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.2
Population
7,379,299
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
10-144.90.6%2,237
15-19107.012.2%43,182
20-24198.222.6%68,037
25-29198.322.6%57,254
30-34169.919.3%41,458
35-39118.713.5%24,235
40-4456.86.5%9,650
45-4923.12.6%3,247
50-541.50.2%174