Sub-Saharan Africa Fertility Rate 1960-2025

Sub-Saharan Africa fertility rate for 2022 was 4.53, a 1.56% decline from 2021.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa fertility rate for 2021 was 4.60, a 1.4% decline from 2020.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa fertility rate for 2020 was 4.67, a 1.43% decline from 2019.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa fertility rate for 2019 was 4.73, a 1.12% decline from 2018.
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.