Sub-Saharan Africa Fertility Rate 1950-2025

Sub-Saharan Africa fertility rate for 2025 is 4.28, a 1.38% decline from 2024.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa fertility rate for 2024 was 4.34, a 1.39% decline from 2023.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa fertility rate for 2023 was 4.40, a 1.48% decline from 2022.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa fertility rate for 2022 was 4.46, a 1.46% decline from 2021.
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year.