Eritrea vs Sierra Leone: Fertility rate: births per woman

Eritrea

3.71 live births per woman

in 2023

Sierra Leone

3.79 live births per woman

in 2023

Eritrea rank

38th

Sierra Leone rank

36th

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

Eritrea
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 3.79 live births per woman against 3.71 live births per woman in Eritrea, a difference of 0.078 live births per woman.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Eritrea ahead.

Globally, Eritrea ranks 38th and Sierra Leone ranks 36th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Fertility rate: births per woman
Unit: live births per woman
Source: Human Fertility Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 17,683 data points, 1891–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

The average number of live births a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to the fertility rates of a given period and if they were not subject to mortality.