Fertility in Zimbabwe, 2025

Zimbabwe
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.62
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 Zimbabwe is projected at 3.62 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (181 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.1 years old. In total, 500,731 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.62
Births
500,731
Births per 1,000 people
29.5
Mean age of mothers
28.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
18.2%
Net reproduction rate
1.65
Boys per 100 girls at birth
102.5
Population
16,950,795
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
10-141.50.2%1,663
15-1993.112.9%90,944
20-24180.825.1%152,347
25-29169.423.5%109,456
30-34139.619.3%72,261
35-3994.813.1%50,477
40-4436.85.1%21,122
45-495.60.8%2,418
50-540.20.0%43