Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2024

Sierra Leone
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.70
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

Country

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

The total fertility rate of Sierra Leone is projected at 3.70 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (176 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.5 years old. In total, 260,194 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.70
Births
260,194
Births per 1,000 people
30.1
Mean age of mothers
28.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.4%
Net reproduction rate
1.59
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.4
Population
8,642,022
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
10-143.00.4%1,544
15-1991.212.3%42,698
20-24175.623.7%73,586
25-29170.723.0%61,604
30-34145.419.6%44,033
35-3999.113.4%25,272
40-4442.35.7%8,966
45-4913.51.8%2,377
50-540.80.1%113