Fertility in Uganda, 2025

Uganda
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.06
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 Uganda is projected at 4.06 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 (198 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.2 years old. In total, 1,734,565 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.06
Births
1,734,565
Births per 1,000 people
33.8
Mean age of mothers
28.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.89
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.0
Population
51,384,894
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
10-141.40.2%4,638
15-19102.612.6%304,686
20-24197.724.3%510,935
25-29194.823.9%429,505
30-34157.219.3%284,301
35-39106.713.1%147,508
40-4447.25.8%47,459
45-496.90.8%5,411
50-540.20.0%125