Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2020

Sierra Leone
2020
Total fertility rate: 4.08
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2020 1990, 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 4.08 children per woman in 2020 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (189 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.7 years old. In total, 254,755 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
4.08
Births
254,755
Births per 1,000 people
32.2
Mean age of mothers
28.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.72
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.3
Population
7,912,558
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
10-143.90.5%1,898
15-19100.212.3%43,273
20-24189.023.1%71,212
25-29185.622.7%58,898
30-34158.719.4%42,431
35-39110.413.5%24,748
40-4449.96.1%9,323
45-4918.32.2%2,828
50-541.10.1%145