South Africa Fertility Rate (1950-2025)

South Africa fertility rate for 2025 is 2.27, a 0.79% decline from 2024.
  • South Africa fertility rate for 2024 was 2.29, a 3.38% increase from 2023.
  • South Africa fertility rate for 2023 was 2.22, a 0.49% decline from 2022.
  • South Africa fertility rate for 2022 was 2.23, a 0.93% 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.