Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2018

Sierra Leone
2018
Total fertility rate: 4.29
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2018 1988, 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 4.29 children per woman in 2018 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (196 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.8 years old. In total, 251,868 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.29
Births
251,868
Births per 1,000 people
33.3
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.78
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
7,554,563
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
10-144.50.5%2,065
15-19104.112.1%43,131
20-24196.222.8%69,530
25-29194.022.6%57,756
30-34166.519.4%41,946
35-39116.813.6%24,596
40-4454.66.4%9,589
45-4921.32.5%3,091
50-541.40.2%164