Fertility in South Africa, 2024

South Africa
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.21
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

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The total fertility rate of South Africa is projected at 2.21 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 (111 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.3 years old. In total, 1,182,869 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.21
Births
1,182,869
Births per 1,000 people
18.5
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.02
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.0
Population
64,007,187
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
10-141.10.2%2,786
15-1951.811.7%137,559
20-24111.425.2%278,451
25-29104.523.7%292,102
30-3483.719.0%242,242
35-3961.413.9%167,115
40-4424.35.5%57,012
45-493.00.7%5,513
50-540.10.0%88