The estimated fertility rate in Sierra Leone in 2025 amounted to 3.61 births per woman, which is 2.43% less than in 2024, when it was 3.70 births per woman. It has been falling in this country for already 29 years in a row. Over the entire period of data from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs since 1950, this indicator has decreased in 1.69 times. The lowest fertility rate was recorded in 2025, when it was 3.61 births per woman. The highest value was in 1987, when the fertility rate in Sierra Leone reached 6.61 births per woman.
Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. The data is sourced from the UN report "World Population Prospects 2024", with the values for 2024 and 2025 being projections.
Fertility rate | Sierra Leone
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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.
