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Sierra Leone: Wanted fertility rate

3.80births per woman · 2019

Wanted fertility rate is an estimate of what the total fertility rate would be if all unwanted births were avoided. Annual figures for Sierra Leone from 2008 to 2019.

20082019

Every year

YearValue (births per woman)Note
20193.8
20134.5
20084.5

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by Demographic & Health Surveys. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Wanted fertility rate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-wanted-fertility-rate (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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