Fertility in Zambia, 2024

Zambia
2024
Total fertility rate: 4.04
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 Zambia is projected at 4.04 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 (182 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.4 years old. In total, 697,518 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
4.04
Births
697,518
Births per 1,000 people
32.7
Mean age of mothers
28.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
20.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.87
Boys per 100 girls at birth
101.1
Population
21,314,956
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
10-142.80.3%3,795
15-19115.514.3%139,223
20-24181.622.5%183,696
25-29175.321.7%151,700
30-34157.319.5%116,057
35-39114.214.1%72,264
40-4451.96.4%27,052
45-498.71.1%3,651
50-540.30.0%80