Editing Demographics of Eritrea (section)

===Fertility and mortality===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
! width="70pt"|Period
! width="70pt"|Live births per 5 years<ref name="UNDESA2019_births" />
! width="70pt"|Deaths per 5 years<ref name="UNDESA2019_mortality" />
! width="70pt"|Natural change per 5 years
! width="70pt"|CBR*<ref name="UNDESA2019_CBR" />
! width="70pt"|CDR*<ref name="UNDESA2019_CDR" />
! width="70pt"|NC*<ref name="UNDESA2019_NatChange" />
! width="70pt"|TFR*<ref name="UNDESA2019_TFR" />
! width="70pt"|IMR*<ref name="UNDESA2019_IMR" />
|-
| 1950–1955 || 204 000|| 128 000|| 76 000|| 47.5|| 29.7 ||17.7|| 6.96|| 199
|-
| 1955–1960 || 233 000|| 128 000|| 105 000||48.8|| 26.8 ||22.0|| 6.96|| 181
|-
| 1960–1965 || 261 000|| 127 000|| 134 000||48.4|| 23.6 ||24.8|| 6.82||160
|-
| 1965–1970 || 291 000|| 133 000|| 158 000||47.4|| 21.7 || 25.7 || 6.70||148
|-
| 1970–1975 || 324 000|| 140 000|| 184 000||46.0|| 19.8 || 26.2||6.62||140
|-
| 1975–1980 || 366 000|| 148 000|| 218 000||45.3|| 18.3 || 27.9|| 6.62|| 132
|-
| 1980–1985 || 422 000|| 161 000|| 261 000||45.2|| 17.3 ||27.7|| 6.70|| 121
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| 1985–1990 || 469 000|| 174 000|| 295 000||44.0|| 16.4 || 23.3|| 6.6|| 112
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| 1990–1995 || 428 000|| 168 000|| 260 000||38.4|| 15.1 ||19.4|| 6.3||94.4
|-
| 1995–2000 || 359 000|| 140 000|| 219 000||31.9|| 12.5 ||24.0|| 5.6||71.1
|-
| 2000–2005 || 442 000|| 135 000|| 307 000||34.6|| 10.6 ||28.3|| 5.1||59.4
|-
| 2005–2010 || 564 000|| 140 000|| 424 000||37.6|| 9.4 ||28.3|| 4.8||51.6
|-
| 2010–2015 || 552 000|| 134 000|| 418 000||33.9|| 8.2 ||25.7|| 4.35||45.0
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| 2015–2020 || 528 000|| 125 000|| 403 000||30.6|| 7.2 ||23.4|| 4.1|| 34.7
|-
|align="left" colspan="9" | * <small>Values per year: CBR = crude birth rate (per 1000); CDR = crude death rate (per 1000); NC = natural change (per 1000); IMR = infant mortality rate per 1000 births; TFR = total fertility rate (number of children per woman)</small>
|}

====Urban/rural and geographical distribution====
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR) (1995 DHS, Table 3.1;<ref name="DHS1995_full" /> 2002 DHS, Table 4.1;<ref name="DHS2002_full" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/dhs#_r=&collection=&country=&dtype=&from=1890&page=5&ps=&sk=&sort_by=nation&sort_order=&to=2014&topic=&view=s&vk=|title=MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys|access-date=31 May 2015}}</ref>)
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan=2| Year
! colspan=2| Total
! colspan=2| Urban
! colspan=2| Rural
|-
! CBR !! TFR
! CBR !! TFR
! CBR !! TFR
|-
| 1995
| style="text-align:right;"| 37.5
| style="text-align:right;"| 6.10
| style="text-align:right;"| 29.3
| style="text-align:right;"| 4.23
| style="text-align:right;"| 40.3
| style="text-align:right;"| 6.99
|-
| 2002
| style="text-align:right;"| 32
| style="text-align:right;"| 4.8
| style="text-align:right;"| 28
| style="text-align:right;"| 3.5
| style="text-align:right;"| 35
| style="text-align:right;"| 5.7
|-
|}

Fertility geographical distribution as of 2010 (PHS, Table 4–2):<ref name="PHS2010_full" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:100pt;"| Zoba
! style="width:100pt;"| Total fertility rate
! style="width:100pt;"| Mean number of children ever born to women age 40–49
! style="width:100pt;"| Percentage of women age 15-49 currently pregnant
|-
| Debubawi Keih Bahri || 4.2 || 5.4 || 7.6
|-
| Maekel || 3.4 || 4.1 || 5.5
|-
| Semenawi Keih Bahri || 5.4 || 5.9 || 8.1
|-
| Anseba || 5.7 || 6.3 || 8.2
|-
| Gash-Barka || 5.4 || 5.6 || 8.0
|-
| Debub || 5.0 || 6.0 || 7.9
|}