Fertility in Western Africa, 2025

Western Africa
2025
Total fertility rate: 4.27
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Western Africa is projected at 4.27 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (203 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.1 years old. In total, 15,017,874 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.27
Births
15,017,874
Births per 1,000 people
32.2
Mean age of mothers
29.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.8%
Net reproduction rate
1.75
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.7
Population
466,532,788
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
10-142.50.3%72,480
15-1987.310.2%2,225,856
20-24191.722.4%4,129,119
25-29202.523.7%3,592,867
30-34177.020.7%2,663,058
35-39119.814.0%1,551,285
40-4455.96.5%622,299
45-4916.82.0%153,585
50-541.00.1%7,323