Fertility in Western Africa, 2024

Western Africa
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.35
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Western Africa is projected at 4.35 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (206 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 14,855,287 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.35
Births
14,855,287
Births per 1,000 people
32.6
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.78
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.7
Population
456,251,328
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
10-142.70.3%76,048
15-1989.110.2%2,207,125
20-24194.122.3%4,033,006
25-29205.523.6%3,543,592
30-34180.020.7%2,651,455
35-39122.614.1%1,555,837
40-4457.86.6%626,440
45-4917.52.0%154,453
50-541.10.1%7,337