Fertility in Sierra Leone, 2025

Sierra Leone
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.61
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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

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The total fertility rate of Sierra Leone is projected at 3.61 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (172 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.5 years old. In total, 260,288 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.61
Births
260,288
Births per 1,000 people
29.5
Mean age of mothers
28.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.56
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.4
Population
8,819,794
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
10-142.80.4%1,434
15-1988.812.3%42,441
20-24172.323.8%73,484
25-29167.123.1%62,082
30-34142.019.6%44,375
35-3996.213.3%25,266
40-4440.25.6%8,799
45-4912.71.8%2,297
50-540.70.1%108