C B months Table 5.5.
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• Fertility
Table 5.8 Menopause Percentage of ever-married women age 30-49 who
are menopausal, by age, Afghanistan 2015 Age
Percentage menopausal
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Estimates for Zabul are not presented separately due to sample coverage
issues; however, they are included in the total national estimates.