Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2019

Sierra Leone
2019
Total fertility rate: 4.19
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2019 1989, 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 4.19 children per woman in 2019 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (193 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.8 years old. In total, 253,675 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.19
Births
253,675
Births per 1,000 people
32.8
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.75
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
7,731,991
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
10-144.20.5%1,962
15-19102.212.2%43,275
20-24192.723.0%70,433
25-29190.022.6%58,391
30-34162.819.4%42,262
35-39113.913.6%24,737
40-4452.66.3%9,527
45-4919.72.3%2,936
50-541.20.1%152