# Fertility rate: Lesotho

2.694 live births per woman in 2023, the latest year published. Figures for 74 years from 1950 to 2023 are below.

Total fertility rate: the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the year's age-specific birth rates throughout her childbearing years.

Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/fertility) · [All countries and regions](/fertility).

## Every year

| Year | Value (live births per woman) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2023 | 2.694 |
| 2022 | 2.716 |
| 2021 | 2.769 |
| 2020 | 2.846 |
| 2019 | 2.924 |
| 2018 | 3.016 |
| 2017 | 3.105 |
| 2016 | 3.18 |
| 2015 | 3.217 |
| 2014 | 3.239 |
| 2013 | 3.283 |
| 2012 | 3.296 |
| 2011 | 3.343 |
| 2010 | 3.25 |
| 2009 | 3.309 |
| 2008 | 3.392 |
| 2007 | 3.442 |
| 2006 | 3.414 |
| 2005 | 3.428 |
| 2004 | 3.508 |
| 2003 | 3.619 |
| 2002 | 3.682 |
| 2001 | 3.63 |
| 2000 | 3.605 |
| 1999 | 3.67 |
| 1998 | 3.815 |
| 1997 | 3.982 |
| 1996 | 4.058 |
| 1995 | 4.125 |
| 1994 | 4.21 |
| 1993 | 4.365 |
| 1992 | 4.541 |
| 1991 | 4.681 |
| 1990 | 4.813 |
| 1989 | 4.964 |
| 1988 | 5.104 |
| 1987 | 5.222 |
| 1986 | 5.317 |
| 1985 | 5.401 |
| 1984 | 5.478 |
| 1983 | 5.56 |
| 1982 | 5.632 |
| 1981 | 5.694 |
| 1980 | 5.746 |
| 1979 | 5.789 |
| 1978 | 5.823 |
| 1977 | 5.848 |
| 1976 | 5.871 |
| 1975 | 5.825 |
| 1974 | 5.753 |
| 1973 | 5.688 |
| 1972 | 5.694 |
| 1971 | 5.696 |
| 1970 | 5.698 |
| 1969 | 5.704 |
| 1968 | 5.725 |
| 1967 | 5.745 |
| 1966 | 5.756 |
| 1965 | 5.772 |
| 1964 | 5.765 |
| 1963 | 5.776 |
| 1962 | 5.787 |
| 1961 | 5.785 |
| 1960 | 5.784 |
| 1959 | 5.787 |
| 1958 | 5.791 |
| 1957 | 5.791 |
| 1956 | 5.791 |
| 1955 | 5.786 |
| 1954 | 5.785 |
| 1953 | 5.745 |
| 1952 | 5.733 |
| 1951 | 5.721 |
| 1950 | 5.701 |

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