Fertility in Western Africa, 2015

Western Africa
2015
Total fertility rate: 5.34
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of Western Africa was 5.34 children per woman in 2015 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (243 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.3 years old. In total, 14,167,705 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
5.34
Births
14,167,705
Births per 1,000 people
38.6
Mean age of mothers
29.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.1%
Net reproduction rate
2.09
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.7
Population
367,500,501
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
10-145.00.5%110,145
15-19115.210.8%2,142,800
20-24225.721.1%3,599,600
25-29243.022.7%3,361,346
30-34217.420.3%2,606,098
35-39154.314.4%1,539,807
40-4479.07.4%625,436
45-4927.22.5%173,540
50-541.70.2%8,938