Fertility in Zambia, 2050

Zambia
2050
Total fertility rate: 2.81
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2050 2020, 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 2.81 children per woman in 2050 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (125 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.8 years old. In total, 880,903 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.81
Births
880,903
Births per 1,000 people
23.1
Mean age of mothers
27.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
19.3%
Net reproduction rate
1.35
Boys per 100 girls at birth
101.1
Population
38,083,385
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
10-141.30.2%2,558
15-1991.716.3%170,434
20-24124.922.2%214,455
25-29125.522.3%195,963
30-34115.720.6%165,149
35-3974.613.3%98,733
40-4425.84.6%30,600
45-493.00.5%2,972
50-540.00.0%38