Fertility in Southern Africa, 2025

Southern Africa
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.27
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Southern Africa is projected at 2.27 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 (116 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.3 years old. In total, 1,400,264 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.27
Births
1,400,264
Births per 1,000 people
18.9
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
12.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.05
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.7
Population
74,021,757
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%3,386
15-1953.611.8%168,927
20-24115.625.5%339,701
25-29107.123.6%337,969
30-3485.318.8%280,790
35-3962.813.8%194,358
40-4425.25.5%67,900
45-493.40.7%7,103
50-540.10.0%130