C B months Table 5.5.

88 • Fertility Table 5.8 Menopause Percentage of ever-married women age 30-49 who are menopausal, by age, Afghanistan 2015 Age Percentage menopausal 1 Number of women 30-34 2.0 4,302 35-39 4.9 4,463 40-41 14.0 1,783 42-43 16.5 1,011 44-45 26.8 1,465 46-47 28.8 976 48-49 50.1 1,247 Total 13.3 15,247 1 Percentage of women who are not pregnant and not postpartum amenorrheic whose last menstrual period occurred 6 or more months preceding the survey Table 5.9 Age at first birth Percentage of women age 15-49 who gave birth by specific exact ages, percentage who have never given birth, and median age at first birth, according to current age, Afghanistan 2015 Percentage who gave birth by exact age Percentage who have never given birth Current age 15 18 20 22 25 Number of women Median age at first birth 15-19 0.5 na na na na 92.0 10,747 a 20-24 3.3 20.4 38.5 na na 44.5 9,103 a 25-29 5.2 29.1 50.9 67.6 81.8 13.7 6,967 19.9 30-34 5.9 33.0 53.8 71.3 84.9 7.1 4,411 19.6 35-39 4.5 27.7 49.8 67.8 83.1 3.7 4,503 20.0 40-44 5.7 29.7 48.8 67.7 85.9 3.0 3,120 20.1 45-49 4.7 22.9 41.0 57.5 78.0 2.8 3,369 21.0 20-49 4.7 26.3 46.3 na na 18.0 31,473 a 25-49 5.2 28.7 49.5 66.9 82.7 7.3 22,371 20.1 na = Not applicable due to censoring a = Omitted because less than 50 of women had a birth before reaching the beginning of the age group Fertility • 89 Table 5.10 Median age at first birth Median age at first birth among women age 25-49, according to background characteristics, Afghanistan 2015 Background characteristic Women age 25-49 Residence Urban 20.1 Rural 20.0 Province 1 Kabul 20.6 Kapisa 19.9 Parwan 21.2 Wardak 21.2 Logar 21.4 Nangarhar 19.7 Laghman 20.3 Panjsher 20.6 Baghlan 19.9 Bamyan 19.3 Ghazni 21.1 Paktika 21.6 Paktya 21.1 Khost 19.7 Kunarha 19.7 Nooristan 20.0 Badakhshan 19.1 Takhar 18.8 Kunduz 20.3 Samangan 20.0 Balkh 20.6 Sar-E-Pul 20.3 Ghor 19.2 Daykundi 19.5 Urozgan 19.4 Kandahar 19.1 Jawzjan 20.7 Faryab 20.7 Helmand 19.3 Badghis 18.2 Herat 19.5 Farah 18.1 Nimroz 18.0 Education No education 19.9 Primary 19.9 Secondary 21.3 More than secondary 24.3 Wealth quintile Lowest 19.7 Second 20.2 Middle 20.3 Fourth 19.9 Highest 20.3 Total 20.1 1 Estimates for Zabul are not presented separately due to sample coverage issues; however, they are included in the total national estimates.