Fertility in Somalia, 2025

Somalia
2025
Total fertility rate: 5.91
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 Somalia is projected at 5.91 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (271 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.4 years old. In total, 822,215 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
5.91
Births
822,215
Births per 1,000 people
41.8
Mean age of mothers
29.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.3%
Net reproduction rate
2.44
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
19,654,739
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
10-143.20.3%4,021
15-19114.29.6%117,268
20-24266.922.5%236,851
25-29270.922.9%202,220
30-34245.120.7%139,553
35-39169.614.3%79,281
40-4485.87.2%33,978
45-4927.52.3%8,616
50-541.70.1%428