Fertility in Swaziland, 2024

Swaziland
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.72
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

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The total fertility rate of Swaziland is projected at 2.72 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 (146 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.9 years old. In total, 29,390 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.72
Births
29,390
Births per 1,000 people
23.6
Mean age of mothers
27.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.1%
Net reproduction rate
1.24
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.9
Population
1,242,822
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
10-140.90.2%62
15-1968.212.5%4,424
20-24145.626.7%8,640
25-29125.423.0%6,694
30-34110.020.2%5,544
35-3966.412.2%3,007
40-4424.84.5%925
45-493.30.6%94
50-540.10.0%1