Mothers’ age at first birth by country
Average age at which women have their first child. The map opens on 2019, with figures for 57 countries.
Highest in 2019
- Turks and Caicos Is. 29.3
- Tuvalu 27.2
- Belarus 26.9
- Tunisia 25.8
- Serbia 24.7
Lowest in 2019
- Ethiopia 18.1
- Zambia 19.0
- Uganda 19.0
- Mali 19.0
- Central African Rep. 19.0
About the data
- Unit
- years (women aged 20–50)
- Years
- 1992–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Global Data Lab
- License
- Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
- Credit
- Data retrieved from the Gender database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/gender/
All countries
- Afghanistan 19.8 (2018)
- Albania 22.8 (2019)
- Algeria 24.5 (2019)
- Angola 19.1 (2019)
- Armenia 22.1 (2019)
- Azerbaijan 22.4 (2006)
- Bangladesh 19.0 (2019)
- Barbados 22.7 (2016)
- Belarus 26.9 (2019)
- Belize 20.6 (2014)
- Benin 19.9 (2018)
- Bhutan 20.7 (2014)
- Bolivia 20.6 (2011)
- Brazil 21.3 (2000)
- Burkina Faso 19.1 (2010)
- Burundi 20.7 (2019)
- Cambodia 21.5 (2014)
- Cameroon 19.6 (2019)
- Central African Rep. 19.0 (2019)
- Chad 19.1 (2019)
- Colombia 20.8 (2018)
- Comoros 20.8 (2012)
- Congo 19.6 (2018)
- Costa Rica 19.8 (2019)
- Côte d'Ivoire 18.5 (1999)
- Cuba 22.3 (2019)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 20.4 (2019)
- Djibouti 22.2 (2010)
- Dominican Rep. 20.6 (2019)
- Egypt 21.7 (2017)
- El Salvador 20.3 (2018)
- Eritrea 20.5 (2005)
- eSwatini 19.8 (2014)
- Ethiopia 18.1 (2019)
- Fiji 22.0 (2019)
- Gabon 19.0 (2012)
- Gambia 19.4 (2018)
- Georgia 22.3 (2019)
- Ghana 20.7 (2018)
- Guatemala 19.9 (2018)
- Guinea 19.5 (2019)
- Guinea-Bissau 19.1 (2017)
- Guyana 20.4 (2019)
- Haiti 21.2 (2019)
- Honduras 20.0 (2019)
- India 20.6 (2019)
- Indonesia 21.8 (2019)
- Iraq 21.7 (2019)
- Jamaica 19.9 (2014)
- Jordan 22.6 (2017)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 22.4 (2014)
- Kazakhstan 22.7 (2018)
- Kenya 19.7 (2014)
- Kiribati 21.7 (2019)
- Kyrgyzstan 21.9 (2019)
- Laos 21.0 (2019)
- Lesotho 20.7 (2018)
- Liberia 18.6 (2013)
- Madagascar 19.7 (2018)
- Malawi 18.7 (2016)
- Maldives 22.4 (2019)
- Mali 19.0 (2019)
- Mauritania 20.7 (2015)
- Mexico 21.3 (2019)
- Moldova 21.4 (2015)
- Mongolia 22.7 (2019)
- Montenegro 24.1 (2019)
- Morocco 21.7 (2006)
- Mozambique 18.9 (2011)
- Myanmar 22.5 (2019)
- Namibia 20.9 (2016)
- Nepal 20.2 (2019)
- Nicaragua 19.2 (2004)
- Niger 18.5 (2015)
- Nigeria 19.9 (2018)
- North Macedonia 23.6 (2019)
- Pakistan 21.5 (2019)
- Papua New Guinea 20.8 (2019)
- Peru 21.1 (2015)
- Philippines 22.3 (2017)
- Qatar 29.6 (2016)
- Rwanda 21.8 (2015)
- S. Sudan 20.0 (2014)
- Saint Lucia 21.2 (2016)
- Samoa 22.1 (2019)
- São Tomé and Principe 19.9 (2019)
- Senegal 20.9 (2019)
- Serbia 24.7 (2019)
- Sierra Leone 19.2 (2019)
- Somalia 20.9 (2015)
- South Africa 20.8 (2019)
- Sudan 21.0 (2017)
- Suriname 21.3 (2019)
- Syria 21.0 (2010)
- Tajikistan 21.5 (2019)
- Tanzania 19.5 (2015)
- Thailand 22.2 (2019)
- Timor-Leste 22.1 (2019)
- Togo 20.9 (2019)
- Tonga 23.6 (2019)
- Trinidad and Tobago 22.7 (2011)
- Tunisia 25.8 (2019)
- Turkey 22.4 (2019)
- Turkmenistan 22.6 (2019)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 29.3 (2019)
- Tuvalu 27.2 (2019)
- Uganda 19.0 (2019)
- Ukraine 22.9 (2015)
- Uzbekistan 20.8 (2009)
- Vanuatu 21.0 (2007)
- Vietnam 22.0 (2014)
- Yemen 19.6 (2013)
- Zambia 19.0 (2019)
- Zimbabwe 19.4 (2019)