Fertility in Uganda, 2024

Uganda
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.16
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 Uganda is projected at 4.16 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 (202 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.3 years old. In total, 1,722,321 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.16
Births
1,722,321
Births per 1,000 people
34.4
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.7%
Net reproduction rate
1.93
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.9
Population
50,015,092
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
10-141.50.2%4,922
15-19104.712.5%304,997
20-24202.124.2%513,014
25-29199.223.8%426,048
30-34161.019.3%277,408
35-39110.213.2%143,457
40-4449.05.9%46,762
45-497.40.9%5,582
50-540.20.0%134