List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate

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Map of countries by total fertility rate (2020-2025), according to UNPD.
Map of countries by total fertility rate (2020-2025), according to UNPD.[1]

This is a list of all sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years.

Methodology[]

The first lists show the most recent year where there is published total fertility rate (TFR) data ranked by sovereign states and dependencies, and are ordered by organization type - Intergovernmental, Governmental or Non-governmental organization that searched, organized and published the data.

Country ranking by most recent years lists:

Intergovernmental organizations ranking lists

The World Bank ranking list is based on the data for the year 2018 published online.[2] The World Bank is a United Nations international financial institution, a component of the World Bank Group, and a member of the United Nations Development Group, but it also collects and analyses information on demography issues based on international and national sources: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

Note: Sometimes World Bank changes its figures of fertility rates for a certain year due to more accurate and updated information from sources. Because of that, sometimes it is necessary to update World Bank figures for fertility rates more than once for the same year.

Governmental organizations ranking lists

The CIA ranking list is sourced from the CIA World Factbook for the most recent year[3][4] unless otherwise specified. Sovereign states and countries are ranked. Some countries might not be listed because they are not fully recognized as countries at the time of this census.

The INED - Institut National d'Études Démographiques is based on the online publication Population & Sociétés - Tous les pays du monde (2019), number 569, September 2019.[5]

Non-governmental organizations ranking lists

The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) ranking list is based on the data of the 2021 World Population Data Sheet [6] published online. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB)[7] is a private, nonprofit organization which informs people around the world about population, health and the environment for research or academic purposes. It was founded in 1929. World Population Data Sheets are double-sided wallcharts (now published online) that present detailed information on demographic, health and environment indicators for more than 200 countries.

Note: Changes in figures of fertility rates by country from one year to another do not always reflect an actual increase or decrease of fertility rates in a certain country but instead reflect a change made due to more accurate and updated information from sources.

The Our World In Data (OWID) Country ranking 2019 list is sourced and based on the OWID website (on the clickable map and quoted sources).[8][9] (OWID) is an online publication that presents empirical research and data that show how living conditions around the world are changing. The aim is to show how the world is changing and why. The publication is developed at the University of Oxford and authored by social historian and development economist Max Roser.

Comparison ranking lists:

The Our World In Data (OWID) Country ranking and comparison by TFR: 1950 and 2015 list is sourced and based on the OWID website (on the clickable map and quoted sources).[10][11] Our World In Data (OWID) is an online publication that presents empirical research and data that show how living conditions around the world are changing. The aim is to show how the world is changing and why. The publication is developed at the University of Oxford and authored by social historian and development economist Max Roser.

The World Bank Country ranking and comparison by TFR: 1960 and 2015 list is sourced and based on the online published demographic data of the World Bank web site (on the clickable map and quoted sources).[12]

The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) Country ranking and comparison by TFR: 1970 and 2013 list is sourced and based on the data of the 2014 World Population Data Sheet[13] published online.[14][15]

Forecast/Prediction ranking lists:

The UN ranking list is sourced from the United Nations World Population Prospects. Figures are from the 2015 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the period 2015–2020, using the medium assumption.[16][17] and from the 2019 revision United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the period 2020–2025, using the medium assumption.[18] The United Nations Population Division (part of the DESA - Department of Economic and Social Affairs[19]) ranking list is based on the forecast/prediction for the years 2015-2020 and 2020-2025 published online.[20][21]

Only countries/territories with a population of 100 000 or more in 2019 are included. Ranks are based on the 2015–2020 and 2020-2025 figures.

Country ranking by most recent year[]

Country ranking by Intergovernmental organizations[]

2019 List by the World Bank [22]
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 2019
(births/woman)
1  Niger 6.824
2  Somalia 5.978
3  DR Congo 5.819
4  Mali 5.785
5  Chad 5.649
6  Angola 5.442
7  Burundi 5.321
8  Nigeria 5.317
9  Gambia 5.154
10  Burkina Faso 5.109
11  Tanzania 4.832
12  Uganda 4.824
13  Mozambique 4.783
14  Benin 4.767
15  Central African Republic 4.645
16  Guinea 4.625
17  South Sudan 4.619
18  Ivory Coast 4.593
19  Zambia 4.559
20  Senegal 4.556
21  Cameroon 4.506
22  Mauritania 4.503
23  Equatorial Guinea 4.429
24  Guinea-Bissau 4.402
25  Congo 4.374
26  Solomon Islands 4.361
27  Sudan 4.347
28  Afghanistan 4.321
29  São Tomé and Príncipe 4.267
30  Togo 4.259
31  Liberia 4.247
32  Sierra Leone 4.169
33  Ethiopia 4.146
34  Comoros 4.138
35  Malawi 4.127
36  Madagascar 4.026
37  Eritrea 3.997
38  Rwanda 3.990
39  East Timor 3.947
40  Gabon 3.922
41  Samoa 3.830
42  Ghana 3.816
43  Vanuatu 3.774
44  Yemen 3.700
45  Iraq 3.597
46  Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank) 3.560
47  Tajikistan 3.556
48  Zimbabwe 3.531
49  Kiribati 3.530
50  Papua New Guinea 3.520
51  Tonga 3.518
52  Pakistan 3.454
53  Kenya 3.423
54  Namibia 3.344
55  Kyrgyzstan 3.300
56  Egypt 3.280
57  Lesotho 3.108
58  Micronesia 3.010
59  Israel 3.010
60  Algeria 2.988
61  Eswatini (Swaziland) 2.958
62  Kazakhstan 2.900
63  Haiti 2.887
64  Mongolia 2.867
65  Oman 2.842
66  Botswana 2.836
67  Guatemala 2.822
68  Uzbekistan 2.785
69  Syria 2.771
70  Fiji 2.754
71  Turkmenistan 2.740
72  Jordan 2.691
73  Bolivia 2.688
74  Djibouti 2.676
75  Laos 2.626
76  Philippines 2.526
77  Cambodia 2.478
78  Guyana 2.440
79  Panama 2.437
80  Honduras 2.427
81  Paraguay 2.405
82  Ecuador 2.403
  World 2.403
83 (1)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) 2.400
84  Suriname 2.394
85  Morocco 2.382
86  South Africa 2.381
87  Nicaragua 2.377
88  Seychelles 2.340
89  Dominican Republic 2.323
90 (2)  Guam (US) 2.293
91  Indonesia 2.288
92  Saudi Arabia 2.275
93  Belize 2.274
94  Venezuela 2.250
95  Argentina 2.247
96  Cape Verde 2.242
97  Peru 2.233
98  Libya 2.206
99  India 2.202
100  Sri Lanka 2.188
101  Tunisia 2.174
102  Iran 2.146
103  Myanmar (Burma) 2.138
104  Mexico 2.103
  Population Replacement 2.100
105 (3)  Greenland (Denmark) 2.080
106  Kuwait 2.077
107  Lebanon 2.075
108  Turkey 2.055
109  Georgia 2.055
110 (4)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) 2.050
111  Vietnam 2.050
112  Grenada 2.042
113  El Salvador 2.021
114  Bangladesh 2.011
115  Antigua and Barbuda 1.987
116  Malaysia 1.983
117  Kosovo 1.970
118  Jamaica 1.965
119  Bahrain 1.964
120  Uruguay 1.963
121  Bhutan 1.954
122 (5)  New Caledonia (France) 1.940
123 (6)  French Polynesia (France) 1.927
124 (7)  Aruba (Netherlands) 1.901
125  North Korea 1.896
126  Nepal 1.876
127  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.872
128  France 1.870
129  Qatar 1.846
130  Maldives 1.840
131  Brunei 1.819
132 (8)   (France) (French part) 1.8 (?)
133  Azerbaijan 1.800
134  Colombia 1.789
135  Romania 1.760
136  Armenia 1.758
137  Iceland 1.750
138  Montenegro 1.748
139  Bahamas 1.743
140  Costa Rica 1.737
141  New Zealand 1.720
142  Trinidad and Tobago 1.711
143  Czech Republic 1.710
144  United States 1.705
145  Ireland 1.700
146  Denmark 1.700
147  Sweden 1.700
148  China 1.696
149  Estonia 1.660
150  Australia 1.657
151  United Kingdom 1.650
152  Brazil 1.648
153  Chile 1.627
154  Barbados 1.623
155  Latvia 1.610
156  Slovenia 1.610
157  Lithuania 1.610
158  Cuba 1.602
159 (9)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 1.600
160  Albania 1.597
161 (10)  Bermuda (UK) 1.590
162  Bulgaria 1.580
163  Netherlands 1.570
164  Belgium 1.570
165  Slovakia 1.560
166  Germany 1.540
167  Norway 1.530
168  Serbia 1.520
169  Thailand 1.514
170 Channel Islands - (11)  Guernsey (UK) and (12)  Jersey (UK) 1.510
171  Russia 1.504
172  Hungary 1.490
173  North Macedonia 1.489
174  Switzerland 1.480
175  Liechtenstein 1.58
176  Croatia 1.470
177  Canada 1.468
178  Austria 1.460
179  Saint Lucia 1.424
180  Poland 1.420
181  Portugal 1.420
182  Mauritius 1.400
183  United Arab Emirates 1.387
184  Belarus 1.382
185  Japan 1.360
186  Finland 1.350
187  Greece 1.350
188  Luxembourg 1.340
189  Cyprus 1.321
190  Italy 1.270
191  Moldova 1.269
192  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.254
193  Spain 1.240
194  Ukraine 1.228
195 (13)  Macau (China) 1.200
196  Singapore 1.140
197  Malta 1.100
198 (14)  Hong Kong (China) 1.072
199 (15)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.035
200  South Korea 0.864
  Sovereign States: 185
  Dependent Territories: 15
  World
World 2.377
  Major Regions
1 Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 4.6
2 Sub-Saharan Africa 4.6
3 Arab world 3.2
4 Middle East and North Africa (excluding high income) 2.9
5 Middle East and North Africa 2.8
6 South Asia 2.4
7 Latin America and Caribbean 2.0
8 Latin America and Caribbean (excluding high income) 1.9
9 Europe and Central Asia (excluding high income) 1.9
10 East Asia and Pacific (excluding high income) 1.9
11 East Asia and Pacific 1.8
12 Europe and Central Asia 1.7
13 North America 1.7
14 Central Europe and the Baltics 1.6
  States’ Size
1 Pacific Island small states 3.5
2 Other small states 3.0
3 Small states 2.8
4 Caribbean small states 2.0
  International Organizations
1 OECD members 1.7
2 European Union 1.5
  Security Situation
1 Fragile and conflict affected situations 4.5
  Economic Areas
1 Euro area 1.5
  Economic Situation
1 Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 4.6
2 Least Developed Countries: UN classification 3.9
  Income
1 Low income countries 4.5
2 Lower middle income countries 2.7
3 Low and middle income countries 2.5
4 Middle income countries 2.3
5 Upper middle income countries 1.9
6 High income countries 1.6
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1  American Samoa (US) -
2  Andorra 1.3 (2010)
3  British Virgin Islands (UK) -
4  Cayman Islands (UK) -
5  Dominica 1.9 (2003)
6  French Guiana (France) -
7  Gibraltar (UK) -
8  Guadeloupe (France) -
9  Isle of Man (UK) 1.6 (2002)
10  Marshall Islands 4.0 (2011)
11  Mayotte (France) -
12  Monaco -
13  Nauru -
14  Northern Mariana Islands (US) -
15  Palau 2.2 (2015)
16  San Marino 1.3 (2012)
17  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) (Dutch part) 2.0 (2011)
18  Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.1 (2002)
19  Turks and Caicos Islands -
20  Tuvalu -
21  Vatican City -
22  Western Sahara -

Note: (-) Data unavailable, inapplicable, not collected or country or dependent territory not included. Sovereign states and dependent territories listed by alphabetical order, not ranked.

Country ranking by Governmental organizations[]

2019 List by the INED - Institut National d'Études Démographiques[23]
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 2019
(births/woman)
1  Niger 6.8
2  Somalia 6.0
3  DR Congo 5.8
4  Mali 5.8
5  Chad 5.6
6  Angola 5.4
7  Burundi 5.3
8  Nigeria 5.3
9  Gambia 5.2
10  Burkina Faso 5.1
11  Benin 4.8
12  Mozambique 4.8
13  Tanzania 4.8
14  Uganda 4.8
15  Central African Republic 4.6
16  Ivory Coast 4.6
17  Guinea 4.6
18  Senegal 4.6
19  South Sudan 4.6
20  Zambia 4.6
21  Cameroon 4.5
22  Mauritania 4.5
23  Congo 4.4
24  Equatorial Guinea 4.4
25  Guinea-Bissau 4.4
26  Afghanistan 4.3
27  São Tomé and Príncipe 4.3
28  Sudan 4.3
29  Togo 4.3
30  Liberia 4.2
31  Sierra Leone 4.2
32  Comoros 4.1
33  Ethiopia 4.1
34  Malawi 4.1
35  Marshall Islands 4.1
36  Eritrea 4.0
37  Madagascar 4.0
38  Rwanda 4.0
39  Gabon 3.9
40  Solomon Islands 3.9
41  East Timor 3.9
42  Ghana 3.8
43  Samoa 3.8
44  Vanuatu 3.7
45  Yemen 3.7
46  Iraq 3.6
47 (1)  Mayotte (France) 3.6
48  Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank) 3.6
49  Tajikistan 3.6
50  Kiribati 3.5
51  Pakistan 3.5
52  Papua New Guinea 3.5
53  Tonga 3.5
54  Zimbabwe 3.5
55  Kenya 3.4
56  Egypt 3.3
57 (2)  French Guiana (France) 3.3
58  Namibia 3.3
59  Lesotho 3.1
60  Algeria 3.0
61  Israel 3.0
62  Kyrgyzstan 3.0
63  Micronesia 3.0
64  Eswatini (Swaziland) 3.0
65  Haiti 2.9
66  Mongolia 2.9
67  Botswana 2.8
68  Fiji 2.8
69  Guatemala 2.8
70  Oman 2.8
71  Syria 2.8
72  Bolivia 2.7
73  Djibouti 2.7
74  Jordan 2.7
75  Kazakhstan 2.7
76  Turkmenistan 2.7
77  Laos 2.6
78  Cambodia 2.5
79  Philippines 2.5
80  Ecuador 2.4
81  Guyana 2.4
82  Honduras 2.4
83  Morocco 2.4
84  Nicaragua 2.4
85  Panama 2.4
86  Paraguay 2.4
87  Seychelles 2.4
88  South Africa 2.4
89  Suriname 2.4
90  Uzbekistan 2.4
91  Western Sahara 2.4
  World 2.4
92  Belize 2.3
93  Dominican Republic 2.3
94 (3)  Guam (US) 2.3
95  Indonesia 2.3
96  Saudi Arabia 2.3
97  Venezuela 2.3
98  Argentina 2.2
99  Cape Verde 2.2
100  India 2.2
101  Libya 2.2
102  Peru 2.2
103 (4)  Réunion (France) 2.2
104  Sri Lanka 2.2
105  Tunisia 2.2
106  Azerbaijan 2.1
107  Georgia 2.1
108 (5)  Guadeloupe (France) 2.1
109  Iran 2.1
110  Kuwait 2.1
111  Lebanon 2.1
112  Mexico 2.1
113  Myanmar (Burma) 2.1
114  Turkey 2.1
115  Vietnam 2.1
  Population Replacement 2.1
116  Antigua and Barbuda 2.0
117  Bahrain 2.0
118  Bangladesh 2.0
119  Bhutan 2.0
120  El Salvador 2.0
121  Grenada 2.0
122  Jamaica 2.0
123  Malaysia 2.0
124  Uruguay 2.0
125 (6)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) 2.0
126 (7)  Aruba (Netherlands) 1.9
127 (8)  French Polynesia (France) 1.9
128  North Korea 1.9
129 (9)  Martinique (France) 1.9
130  Monaco 1.9
131  Nepal 1.9
132 (10)  New Caledonia (France) 1.9
133  New Zealand 1.9
134  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.9
135  Armenia 1.8
136  Australia 1.8
137  Brunei 1.8
138  Colombia 1.8
139  Denmark 1.8
140  Dominica 1.8
141  France (Metropolitan France) 1.8
142  Ireland 1.8
143  Maldives 1.8
144  Qatar 1.8
145  Russia 1.8
146  Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.8
147  Sweden 1.8
148  United States 1.8
149  Bahamas 1.7
150  Belarus 1.7
151  Belgium 1.7
152  China (mainland only) 1.7
153  Costa Rica 1.7
154 (11)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 1.7
155  Czech Republic 1.7
156  Iceland 1.7
157  Kosovo 1.7
158  Latvia 1.7
159  Lithuania 1.7
160  Montenegro 1.7
161  Norway 1.7
162  Trinidad and Tobago 1.7
163  United Kingdom 1.7
164  Albania 1.6
165  Barbados 1.6
166  Bulgaria 1.6
167  Brazil 1.6
168  Chile 1.6
169  Cuba 1.6
170  Estonia 1.6
171  Germany 1.6
172  Romania 1.6
173  Slovenia 1.6
174  Austria 1.5
175  Canada 1.5
176  Finland 1.5
177  Hungary 1.5
178  Malta 1.5
179  North Macedonia 1.5
180  Slovakia 1.5
181  Switzerland 1.5
182  Thailand 1.5
183  Croatia 1.4
184 (12)  Hong Kong (China) 1.4
185  Japan 1.4
186  Liechtenstein 1.4
187  Luxembourg 1.4
188  Mauritius 1.4
189  Netherlands 1.4
190  Poland 1.4
191  Saint Lucia 1.4
192  Serbia 1.4
193  Ukraine 1.4
194  United Arab Emirates 1.4
195  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.3
196  Cyprus 1.3
197  Greece 1.3
198  Italy 1.3
199  Moldova 1.3
200  Portugal 1.3
201  San Marino 1.3
202  Spain 1.3
203  Republic of China (Taiwan) 1.2
204 (13)  Macau (China) 1.2
205 (14)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.2
206  Singapore 1.2
207  Andorra 1.0
208  South Korea 0.9
  Sovereign States: 194
  Dependent Territories: 14
  World
1 World 2.4
  Continents
1 Africa 4.4
2 Oceania 2.3
3 Asia 2.1
4 Americas 1.9
5 Europe 1.6
  Major Regions
1 Middle Africa 5.4
2 Western Africa 5.1
3 Eastern Africa 4.3
4 Northern Africa 3.2
5 Central Asia 2.7
6 Western Asia 2.6
7 Southern Africa 2.5
8 Oceania 2.3
9 South Asia 2.3
10 Caribbean 2.2
11 Central America 2.2
12 Southeast Asia 2.2
13 South America 1.9
14 East Asia 1.7
15 Eastern Europe 1.7
16 Northern America 1.7
17 Northern Europe 1.7
18 Western Europe 1.7
19 Southern Europe 1.3
  Not Ranked
1 Channel Islands - (1)  Guernsey (UK) and (2)  Jersey (UK) -
2 (3)  Christmas Island (Australia) -
3 (4)  Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) -
4  EU -
5 (5)  Falkland Islands (UK) -
6 (6)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
7  Nauru -
8  Niue -
9 (7)  Norfolk Island (Australia) -
10  Palau -
11 (8)  Pitcairn Islands (UK) -
12 (9)  Svalbard (Norway) -
13 (10)  Tokelau (New Zealand) -
14  Tuvalu -
15  Vatican City -
  Sovereign States: 4
  Dependent Territories: 10
2021 List by the CIA World Factbook[24][25]
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 2021
(births/woman)
1  Niger 6.91
2  Angola 5.90
3  DR Congo 5.70
4  Mali 5.63
5  Chad 5.57
6  Benin 5.47
7  Uganda 5.45
8  South Sudan 5.43
9  Somalia 5.41
10  Burundi 5.10
11  Mozambique 4.89
12  Guinea 4.89
13  Liberia 4.84
14  Afghanistan 4.72
15  Guinea-Bissau 4.72
16  Nigeria 4.67
17  Sudan 4.66
18  Zambia 4.63
19  Cameroon 4.61
20  Sierra Leone 4.58
21  Tanzania 4.45
22  Congo 4.41
23  Burkina Faso 4.39
24  East Timor 4.32
25  Togo 4.28
26  Central African Republic 4.09
27  Ethiopia 4.07
28  Equatorial Guinea 4.02
29  Senegal 3.97
30  Zimbabwe 3.91
31  Ghana 3.71
32  Madagascar 3.70
33  São Tomé and Príncipe 3.69
34  Eritrea 3.65
35  Ivory Coast 3.60
36  Mauritania 3.59
37  Gaza Strip ( Palestine) 3.54
38  Pakistan 3.53
39  Malawi 3.51
40  Rwanda 3.42
41  Kenya 3.36
42  Gabon 3.36
43  Iraq 3.32
44  Egypt 3.23
45  Gambia 3.13
46  Libya 3.13
47  Yemen 3.10
48  Namibia 3.03
49  West Bank ( Palestine) 3.02
50  Jordan 3.00
51  Lesotho 2.95
52  Solomon Islands 2.92
53  Philippines 2.89
54  Comoros 2.86
55  Tuvalu 2.86
56  Syria 2.85
57  Tonga 2.81
58 (1)  Guam (US) 2.81
59  Marshall Islands 2.81
60  Papua New Guinea 2.79
61  Oman 2.73
62  Vanuatu 2.72
63  Guatemala 2.67
64  Belize 2.66
65 (2)  Northern Mariana Islands (US) 2.66
66  Nauru 2.65
67  Israel 2.57
68  Laos 2.57
69  Algeria 2.55
70  Kyrgyzstan 2.52
71  Eswatini (Swaziland) 2.48
72  Tajikistan 2.48
73  Haiti 2.48
74  Samoa 2.46
75  Bolivia 2.45
76  Botswana 2.42
  World 2.42 (2020 estimate)
77  Cambodia 2.36
78 (3)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) 2.30
79  Morocco 2.29
80  Fiji 2.28
81  India 2.28
82 (4)  American Samoa (US) 2.28
83  Micronesia 2.27
84  Kuwait 2.25
85  Venezuela 2.24
86  Dominican Republic 2.23
87  Kiribati 2.23
88  Panama 2.21
89  South Africa 2.20
90  Argentina 2.20
91  Mexico 2.17
92  Djibouti 2.17
93  Cape Verde 2.14
94  Colombia 2.14
95  Kazakhstan 2.13
  Population Replacement 2.10
96  Bangladesh 2.09
97  Cook Islands (self-governing country in free association with  New Zealand) 2.09
98  El Salvador 2.07
99  Guyana 2.07
100  Ecuador 2.07
101  Vietnam 2.06
102  Jamaica 2.06
103  Honduras 2.05
104  Burma (Myanmar) 2.05
105  France 2.04
106  Indonesia 2.04
107  Turkmenistan 2.04
108  Tunisia 2.03
109  Peru 2.02
110  Dominica 2.02
111 (5)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US ) 2.01
112 (6)  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 2.00
113  Sri Lanka 2.00
114 (7)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 1.99
115  Bahamas 1.98
116  Iceland 1.96
117  Antigua and Barbuda 1.96
118  Saudi Arabia 1.95
119  Grenada 1.95
120  Turkey 1.94
121  Iran 1.93
122  Nepal 1.93
123  Mongolia 1.93
124  Ireland 1.93
125  Kosovo 1.92
126 (8)  Greenland (Denmark) 1.92
127 (9)  Gibraltar (UK) 1.91
128  North Korea 1.91
129 (10)  Bermuda (UK) 1.91
130  Qatar 1.90
131 (11)  Isle of Man (UK) 1.90
132  Paraguay 1.89
133  Azerbaijan 1.87
134  Costa Rica 1.87
135 (12)  New Caledonia (France) 1.87
136  New Zealand 1.87
137  United Kingdom 1.86
138  Sweden 1.86
139  Suriname 1.85
140  United States 1.84
141  Norway 1.84
142 (13)  Cayman Islands (UK) 1.83
143 (14)  Aruba (Netherlands) 1.83
144  Seychelles 1.82
145 (15)  French Polynesia (France) 1.82
146  Montenegro 1.82
147  Nicaragua 1.81
148 (16)   (France) 1.80
149  Bhutan 1.80
150  Netherlands 1.78
151  Denmark 1.77
152  Belgium 1.77
153  Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.77
154  Malaysia 1.76
155  Chile 1.76
156  Uruguay 1.76
157  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.75
158  Georgia 1.75
159  Brunei 1.75
160  Finland 1.74
161  Australia 1.74
162  Uzbekistan 1.73
163  Mauritius 1.73
164  Brazil 1.73
165  Saint Lucia 1.73
166 (17)  Anguilla (UK) 1.72
167  Lebanon 1.71
168 (18)  Wallis and Futuna (France) 1.71
169  Cuba 1.71
170  Maldives 1.71
171  Barbados 1.70
172  Palau 1.70
173  Trinidad and Tobago 1.70
174 (19)  Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) 1.70
175  Liechtenstein 1.69
176  Bahrain 1.68
177 (20)  Jersey (UK) 1.66
178  United Arab Emirates 1.65
179  Armenia 1.65
180 (21)  Saint Barthélemy (France) 1.64
181  Luxembourg 1.63
-  EU 1.62
182  Estonia 1.61
183  Lithuania 1.61
184  Russia 1.60
185  China 1.60
186 (22)  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK) 1.60
187  Slovenia 1.59
188 (23)  Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) 1.58
189  Moldova 1.58
190 (24)  Guernsey (UK) 1.58
191  Switzerland 1.58
192  Canada 1.57
193  Ukraine 1.56
194  Thailand 1.54
195  Latvia 1.54
196  Albania 1.53
197  Monaco 1.52
198  San Marino 1.52
199  Spain 1.51
200  Belarus 1.51
201  North Macedonia 1.51
202  Austria 1.50
203  Malta 1.50
204  Bulgaria 1.49
205  Czech Republic 1.49
206  Germany 1.48
207  Cyprus 1.48
208  Hungary 1.48
209  Italy 1.47
210  Serbia 1.47
211  Slovakia 1.45
212  Andorra 1.44
213  Croatia 1.44
214  Portugal 1.42
215  Poland 1.39
216  Greece 1.39
217  Romania 1.38
218  Japan 1.38
219  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.35
220 (25)  British Virgin Islands (UK) 1.34
221 (26)  Montserrat (UK) 1.31
222 (27)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.23
223 (28)  Hong Kong (China) 1.22
224 (29)  Macau (China) 1.21
225  Singapore 1.15
226  South Korea 1.09
227  Republic of China (Taiwan) 1.07
  Sovereign States: 198
  Dependent Territories: 29
  World
1 World 2.42 (2020 estimate)
  Not Ranked
1 (1)   (Australia) (uninhabited) -
2 (2)  Christmas Island (Australia) -
3 (3)  Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) -
4 (4)   (Australia) -
5 (5)  Falkland Islands (UK) -
6 (6)  French Guiana (France) -
7 (7)  Guadeloupe (France) -
8 (8)  Martinique (France) -
9 (9)  Mayotte (France) -
10  Niue (self-governing state in free association with  New Zealand) -
11 (10)  Norfolk Island (Australia) -
12 (..1..) Paracel Islands (disputed territory) ( Vietnam, until 1974) (occupied by  China since 1974, also claimed by  Republic of China (Taiwan) and  Vietnam) -
13 (11)  Pitcairn Islands (UK) -
14 (12)  Réunion (France) -
15 (13)  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) -
16 (..2..) Spratly Islands (disputed territory) (partially occupied by six countries -  China;  Republic of China (Taiwan);  Philippines;  Malaysia;  Vietnam and  Brunei) -
17 (14)  Svalbard (Norway) -
18  Vatican City -
19 (..3..)  Western Sahara (disputed territory between Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) ("Free Zone" is a self proclaimed and de facto sovereign state) 3.65 (2020)
  Sovereign States: 2
  Dependent Territories: 14
  Disputed Territories: 3

Note:

(-) Data unavailable, inapplicable, not collected or country or dependent territory not included. Sovereign states and dependent territories listed by alphabetical order, not ranked.

Country ranking by Nongovernmental organizations[]

2021 List by the PRB - Population Reference Bureau[citation needed]
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 2020
(births/woman)
1  Niger 7.0
2  Somalia 6.9
3  Chad 6.4
4  Mali 6.3
5  DR Congo 6.2
6  Angola 6.0
7  Central African Republic 6.0
8  Benin 5.7
9  Burundi 5.2
10  Nigeria 5.2
11  Burkina Faso 5.0
12  Uganda 5.0
13  Mozambique 5.0
14  Cameroon 4.8
15  Senegal 4.7
16  Zambia 4.7
17  Madagascar 4.6
18  Ivory Coast 4.5
19  Guinea 4.5
20 (1)  Mayotte (France) 4.5
21  South Sudan 4.5
22  Tanzania 4.5
23  Gambia 4.4
24  Mauritania 4.4
25  Afghanistan 4.3
26  Congo 4.3
27  Equatorial Guinea 4.3
28  Guinea-Bissau 4.3
29  Sudan 4.3
30  Togo 4.3
31  Liberia 4.2
32  Sierra Leone 4.2
33  Comoros 4.1
34  Ethiopia 4.1
35  Rwanda 4.1
36  Samoa 4.1
37  Solomon Islands 4.1
38  Papua New Guinea 4.0
39  Vanuatu 4.0
40  Ghana 3.9
41  Eritrea 3.9
42  Nauru 3.9
43  Zimbabwe 3.9
44  Gabon 3.8
45  Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank) 3.8
46  São Tomé and Príncipe 3.8
47  Pakistan 3.7
48 (2)  French Guiana (France) 3.6
49  Iraq 3.6
50  Malawi 3.6
51  East Timor 3.6
52  Yemen 3.6
53  Tajikistan 3.5
54  Kenya 3.4
55  Kiribati 3.3
56  Namibia 3.3
57  Tuvalu 3.3
58  Tonga 3.2
59  Micronesia 3.0
60  Turkmenistan 3.0
61  Fiji 2.9
62  Israel 2.9
63  Kyrgyzstan 2.9
64  Mongolia 2.9
65  Algeria 2.8
66  Haiti 2.8
67  Uzbekistan 2.8
68  Egypt 2.7
69 (3)  Guam (US) 2.7
70  Jordan 2.7
71  Kazakhstan 2.7
72  Laos 2.7
73  Lesotho 2.7
74  Syria 2.7
75  Djibouti 2.6
76  Guatemala 2.6
77  Oman 2.6
78  Bolivia 2.5
79  Botswana 2.5
80  Honduras 2.5
81  Philippines 2.5
82  Eswatini (Swaziland) 2.5
83  Cambodia 2.4
84  Ecuador 2.4
85  Guyana 2.4
86  Nicaragua 2.4
87  Panama 2.4
88  Paraguay 2.4
89 (4)  Réunion (France) 2.4
90  Bangladesh 2.3
91 (6)  Guadeloupe (France) 2.3
92  Morocco 2.3
93  Myanmar (Burma) 2.3
94  Seychelles 2.3
95  South Africa 2.3
96  Venezuela 2.3
97  Western Sahara 2.3
  World 2.3
98  Argentina 2.2
99  Belize 2.2
100  Cape Verde 2.2
101  Dominican Republic 2.2
102  India 2.2
103  Libya 2.2
104  Palau 2.2
105  Peru 2.2
106  Suriname 2.2
107  El Salvador 2.1
108  Indonesia 2.1
109  Kuwait 2.1
110  Mexico 2.1
111  Tunisia 2.1
112  Vietnam 2.1
  Population Replacement 2.1
113  Antigua and Barbuda 2.0
114  Bahamas 2.0
115  Grenada 2.0
116  Lebanon 2.0
117  Maldives 2.0
118  Nepal 2.0
119  Saudi Arabia 2.0
120  Bhutan 1.9
121  Colombia 1.9
122  Georgia 1.9
123  Iran 1.9
124 (8)  Martinique (France) 1.9
125 (5)  New Caledonia (France) 1.9
126  North Korea 1.9
127  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.9
128  Turkey 1.9
129  Azerbaijan 1.8
130  Bahrain 1.8
131  Brunei 1.8
132  Dominica 1.8
133  France 1.8
134 (7)  French Polynesia (France) 1.8
135  Jamaica 1.8
136  Malaysia 1.8
137  Montenegro 1.8
138  Qatar 1.8
139  Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.8
140  Sri Lanka 1.8
141  Brazil 1.7
142  Czech Republic 1.7
143  Denmark 1.7
144  Iceland 1.7
145  Sweden 1.7
146  Armenia 1.6
147  Australia 1.6
148  Barbados 1.6
149  Belgium 1.6
150  Bulgaria 1.6
151  Chile 1.6
152  Cuba 1.6
153 (9)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 1.6
154  Estonia 1.6
155  Hungary 1.6
156  Ireland 1.6
157  Kosovo 1.6
158  Netherlands 1.6
159  New Zealand 1.6
160  Slovakia 1.6
161  Slovenia 1.6
162  United Kingdom 1.6
163  United States 1.6
164  Uruguay 1.6
165  Canada 1.5
166 Channel Islands – (10)  Guernsey (UK) and (11)  Jersey (UK) 1.5
167  Croatia 1.5
168  Germany 1.5
169  Latvia 1.5
170  Liechtenstein 1.5
171  Mauritius 1.5
172  Monaco 1.5
173  Norway 1.5
174  Russia 1.5
175  Serbia 1.5
176  Switzerland 1.5
-  EU 1.5
177  Austria 1.4
178  Belarus 1.4
179  Costa Rica 1.4
180  Finland 1.4
181  Lithuania 1.4
182  Luxembourg 1.4
183  Portugal 1.4
184  Thailand 1.4
185  Trinidad and Tobago 1.4
186  United Arab Emirates 1.4
187  Albania 1.3
188  China (mainland only) 1.3
189  Cyprus 1.3
190  Greece 1.3
191  Japan 1.3
192  North Macedonia 1.3
193  Poland 1.3
194  Romania 1.3
195  Saint Lucia 1.3
196  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.2
197  Italy 1.2
198  Moldova 1.2
199  Spain 1.2
200  Malta 1.1
201  San Marino 1.1
202  Singapore 1.1
203  Ukraine 1.1
204  Andorra 1.0
205  Republic of China (Taiwan) 1.0
206 (13)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.0
207 (12)  Hong Kong (China) 0.9
208 (14)  Macau (China) 0.9
209  South Korea 0.8
  Sovereign States: 195
  Dependent Territories: 14
  World
1 World 2.3
  Continents
1 Africa 4.3
2 Oceania 2.2
3.2 Asia 1.9
4 Americas 1.9
5 Europe 1.5
  Major Regions
1 Sub-Saharan Africa 4.7
1.1 Middle Africa 5.8
1.2 Western Africa 5.1
1.3 Eastern Africa 4.3
1.4 Southern Africa 2.4
2 Northern Africa 2.9
3 Central Asia 2.9
4 Western Asia 2.5
5 South Asia 2.3
6 Oceania 2.2
7 Southeast Asia 2.1
8 Latin America and the Caribbean 2.0
8.1 Central America 2.1
8.2 Caribbean 2.1
8.3 South America 1.9
9 Northern America 1.6
10 Western Europe 1.6
11 Northern Europe 1.6
12 Eastern Europe 1.4
13 Southern Europe 1.3
14 East Asia 1.3
  Development Level
1 Least Developed 4.0
2 Less Developed 2.4
3 More Developed 1.5
  Income
1 Low Income 4.7
2 Middle Income 2.2
2.1 - Lower Middle Income 2.6
2.2 - Upper Middle Income 1.6
3 High Income 1.5
  Not Ranked
1 (1)  Christmas Island (Australia) -
2 (2)  Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) -
3 (3)  Falkland Islands (UK) -
4 (4)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
5  Niue -
6 (5)  Norfolk Island (Australia) -
7 (6)  Pitcairn Islands (UK) -
8 (7)  Svalbard (Norway) -
9 (8)  Tokelau (New Zealand) -
10  Vatican City -
  Sovereign States: 2
  Dependent Territories: 8
2019 List by the OWID - Our World In Data - Based on Gapminder Estimates[citation needed]
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 2019
(births/woman)
1  Niger 7.07
2  Somalia 5.98
3  DR Congo 5.82
4  Mali 5.79
5  Chad 5.65
6  Angola 5.48
7  Burundi 5.45
8  Nigeria 5.32
9  Uganda 5.32
10  Gambia 5.22
11  Burkina Faso 5.11
12  Mozambique 5.05
13  Tanzania 4.83
14  Zambia 4.81
15  Benin 4.77
16  Ivory Coast 4.72
17  Central African Republic 4.65
18  Guinea 4.62
19  South Sudan 4.62
20  Senegal 4.55
21  Equatorial Guinea 4.43
22  Afghanistan 4.18
23  Cameroon 4.51
24  Mauritania 4.49
25  Congo 4.48
26  Guinea-Bissau 4.41
27  Liberia 4.38
28  Malawi 4.38
29  Sudan 4.35
30  São Tomé and Príncipe 4.27
31  Sierra Leone 4.17
32  Togo 4.26
33  Iraq 4.19
34  Comoros 4.14
35  Madagascar 4.02
36  Eritrea 3.92
37  Ethiopia 3.86
38  Samoa 3.83
39  Ghana 3.81
40  Solomon Islands 3.69
41  Yemen 3.69
42  Kenya 3.68
43  Rwanda 3.67
44  Gabon 3.59
45  Kiribati 3.53
46  Zimbabwe 3.53
47  Papua New Guinea 3.52
48  Tonga 3.52
49  Pakistan 3.29
50  Namibia 3.24
51  Tajikistan 3.22
52 (1)  French Guiana (France) 3.21
53  Jordan 3.18
54  Vanuatu 3.17
55  Egypt 3.10
56  Lesotho 2.95
57  Eswatini (Swaziland) 2.94
58  Israel 2.89
59  Kyrgyzstan 2.86
60  Philippines 2.84
61  Guatemala 2.82
62  Bolivia 2.77
63  Haiti 2.77
64  Syria 2.77
65  Turkmenistan 2.74
66  Djibouti 2.67
67  Mongolia 2.63
68  Botswana 2.60
69  Algeria 2.59
70  Kazakhstan 2.54
71  Laos 2.54
72  Oman 2.46
73  Cambodia 2.47
74  Saudi Arabia 2.42
75  Belize 2.41
76  Fiji 2.45
77  Guyana 2.44
78  Panama 2.43
79  Ecuador 2.41
80  Paraguay 2.40
  World 2.40
81  Morocco 2.38
82  South Africa 2.38
83  Honduras 2.35
84  Dominican Republic 2.34
85  Peru 2.31
86  Suriname 2.30
87  Indonesia 2.29
88  Cape Verde 2.24
89  India 2.26
90  Argentina 2.25
91  Venezuela 2.25
92  Seychelles 2.23
93  Uzbekistan 2.21
94  Libya 2.16
95  Myanmar (Burma) 2.15
96  Nicaragua 2.12
97  Tunisia 2.12
98 (2)  New Caledonia (France) 2.11
  Population Replacement 2.10
99  Mexico 2.09
100  Grenada 2.04
101  Antigua and Barbuda 2.02
102  Azerbaijan 2.02
103  Bangladesh 2.02
104  El Salvador 2.02
105  Nepal 2.02
106  Sri Lanka 2.01
107  Turkey 2.00
108  Ireland 1.98
109  Malaysia 1.98
110  Maldives 1.98
111  France 1.97
112  Georgia 1.97
113  Jamaica 1.97
114  Bahrain 1.96
115  Bhutan 1.96
116  New Zealand 1.96
117  Uruguay 1.96
118  Kuwait 1.94
119  Vietnam 1.94
120  Iceland 1.91
121  Sweden 1.91
122  United States 1.90
123  North Korea 1.88
124  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.87
125  United Kingdom 1.87
126  Qatar 1.85
127  Brunei 1.84
128  Norway 1.83
129  Australia 1.82
130  Barbados 1.80
131  Belgium 1.80
132  Colombia 1.80
133  Finland 1.78
134  Denmark 1.77
135  Russia 1.77
136  Chile 1.75
137  Netherlands 1.75
138  Bahamas 1.74
139  Costa Rica 1.74
140  Belarus 1.72
141  Cuba 1.72
142  Trinidad and Tobago 1.72
143  Albania 1.70
144  Lebanon 1.70
145  United Arab Emirates 1.70
146  Lithuania 1.68
147  Estonia 1.67
148  Montenegro 1.65
149  Slovenia 1.65
150  Brazil 1.65
151  China 1.64
152  Serbia 1.63
153  Luxembourg 1.61
154  Bulgaria 1.60
155  Armenia 1.59
156  Czech Republic 1.59
157  Iran 1.59
158  Latvia 1.59
159  Ukraine 1.58
160  Canada 1.56
161  Macedonia 1.56
162  Switzerland 1.56
163  Romania 1.55
164  Austria 1.53
165  Italy 1.51
166  Japan 1.50
167  Malta 1.49
168  Germany 1.48
169 (3)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.46
170  Croatia 1.44
171  Thailand 1.44
172  Saint Lucia 1.43
173  Mauritius 1.42
174  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.41
175  Hungary 1.41
176  Spain 1.41
177  Cyprus 1.33
178  Greece 1.30
179  Poland 1.29
180  Singapore 1.27
181  Portugal 1.24
182  Moldova 1.23
183  South Korea 0.92
  Sovereign States: 183
  Dependent Territories: 3
  World
1 World 2.40
  Not Ranked
1 (1)  American Samoa (US) -
2  Andorra -
3 (2)  Aruba (Netherlands) -
4 (3)  Bermuda (UK) -
5 (4)  Cayman Islands (UK) -
6 Channel Islands - (5)  Guernsey (UK) and (6)  Jersey (UK) -
7 (7)  Curaçao (Netherlands) -
8  Dominica -
9 (8)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
10 (9)  French Polynesia (France) -
11 (10)  Greenland (Denmark) -
12 (11)  Guadeloupe (France) -
13 (12)  Guam (US) -
14 (13)  Hong Kong (China) -
15 (14)  Isle of Man (UK) -
16  Kosovo -
17  Liechtenstein -
18 (15)  Macau (China) -
19  Marshall Islands -
20 (16)  Mayotte (France) -
21  Micronesia -
22  Monaco -
23 (17)  Northern Mariana Islands (US) -
24  Palau -
25  Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank) -
26  San Marino -
27 (18)   (France) (French part) -
28 (19)  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) (Dutch part) -
29  Slovakia -
30  Saint Kitts and Nevis -
31  East Timor -
32 (20)  Turks and Caicos Islands UK) -
33  Tuvalu -
34 (21)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) -
35  Vatican City -
  Sovereign States: 14
  Dependent Territories: 21

Note:

(-) Data unavailable, inapplicable, not collected or country or dependent territory not included. Sovereign states and dependent territories listed by alphabetical order, not ranked.

Country ranking and comparison of TFR by year[]

1950 and 2015[]

1950 List by Our World In Data 2015 List by Our World In Data
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 1950
(births/woman)
1  Iraq 8.11
2 (1)  Rwanda (Belgian overseas colonies, Ruanda-Urundi → United Nations trust territories →  Rwanda) 7.92
3 (2)   (British and French Condominium →  Vanuatu) 7.68
4 (3)  Samoa (United Nations trust territories, Western Samoa →  Samoa) 7.63
5  Jordan 7.56
6  Morocco 7.51
7  Honduras 7.47
8  Afghanistan 7.45
9  Philippines 7.45
10 (4)  Ivory Coast (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa, French Ivory Coast →  Ivory Coast 7.38
11  Yemen (  and   →  Yemen) 7.37
12 (5)  Kenya (British Empire, Kenya Colony →  Kenya) 7.36
13  Ethiopia 7.35
14 (6)  Angola (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Angola →  Angola) 7.34
15 (7)  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (British Empire →  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) 7.33
16 (8)  Madagascar (French Colonial Empire, French Madagascar →  Madagascar) 7.30
17 (9)  Tonga (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Tonga) 7.30
18 (10)  Algeria (French Colonial Empire, French Algeria →  Algeria) 7.29
19 (11)  Niger (French Colonial Empire, French Niger →  Niger) 7.26
20 (12)  Somalia (British Empire, British Somaliland and Trust Territory of Somaliland →  Somalia) 7.25
21  Oman 7.25
22 (13)  Kuwait (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Kuwait) 7.22
23  Saudi Arabia 7.20
24 (14)  Micronesia (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Micronesia) 7.20
25  Syria 7.18
26  Guatemala 7.15
27  Libya 7.10
28 (15)  Qatar (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Qatar) 6.97
29 (16)  Bahrain (British Empire →  Bahrain) 6.97
30 (17)  Mozambique (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Mozambique →  Mozambique) 6.97
31 (18)  Mali (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa, French Sudan →  Mali) 6.96
32  Peru 6.95
33 (19)  Cambodia (French Colonial Empire, French Indochina, French Cambodia →  Cambodia) 6.95
34 (20)  United Arab Emirates (British Empire, Trucial States →  United Arab Emirates) 6.94
35  Bolivia 6.93
36  Iran 6.92
37 (21)  Eritrea ( Ethiopia →  Eritrea) 6.92
38  Republic of China (Taiwan) 6.90
39 (22)  Uganda (British Empire →  Uganda) 6.89
40  Nicaragua 6.88
41 (23)  Brunei (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Brunei) 6.86
42 (24)  Malawi (British Empire, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Nyasaland Protectorate →  Malawi) 6.84
43 (25)  Burundi (Belgian overseas colonies, Ruanda-Urundi → United Nations trust territories →  Burundi) 6.82
44 (26)  Senegal (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa, French Senegal →  Senegal) 6.79
45  Colombia 6.77
46 (27)   (British Empire, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland →  Zimbabwe) 6.75
47  Turkey 6.74
48  Mexico 6.72
49  Ecuador 6.72
50  Egypt 6.72
51 (28)  Swaziland (British Empire →  Swaziland) 6.71
52 (29)  Tanzania (British Empire, Tanganyika and Zanzibar →  Tanzania) 6.70
53  Belize 6.69
54 (30)  Sudan (British Empire, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan →  Sudan) 6.68
55  Bhutan 6.67
56  China 6.67
57 (31)  South Sudan (British Empire, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan →  Sudan →  South Sudan) 6.63
58 (32)   (British Empire, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland →  Zambia) 6.62
59 (33)  Singapore (British Empire, British Singapore →  Singapore) 6.61
60  Pakistan 6.60
61 (34)  Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands →  Suriname) 6.58
62 (35)  Cape Verde (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Cape Verde →  Cape Verde) 6.57
63 (36)  Tunisia (French Colonial Empire, French protectorate of Tunisia →  Tunisia) 6.56
64  Venezuela 6.54
65 (37)  East Timor (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Timor →  East Timor) 6.51
66 (38)  Dominican Republic 6.49
67  Paraguay 6.49
68 (39)  Botswana (British Empire, Bechuanaland Protectorate →  Botswana) 6.47
69 (40)  Solomon Islands (British Empire →  Solomon Islands) 6.40
70 (41)  Ghana (British Empire, Gold Coast (British colony) →  Ghana) 6.37
71  Nigeria (British Empire, British Nigeria →  Nigeria 6.36
72 (42)  Malaysia (British Empire, British Malaya and British Borneo →  Malaysia) 6.36
73 (43)  Togo (United Nations trust territories, French Colonial Empire, French West Africa, French Togoland →  Togo) 6.33
74  Haiti 6.31
75 (44)  Djibouti (French Colonial Empire, French Somaliland →  Djibouti) 6.30
76 (45)  Fiji (British Empire →  Fiji) 6.30
77  Liberia 6.25
78  El Salvador 6.24
79 (46)  Bangladesh (Pakistan, East Pakistan →  Bangladesh) 6.23
80 (47)   (United Nations trust territories →  Papua New Guinea 6.23
81 (48)  São Tomé and Príncipe (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Sao Tome and Principe →  São Tomé and Príncipe) 6.20
82  Brazil 6.14
83  Thailand 6.13
84 (49)  Mauritania (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa, French Mauritania →  Mauritania 6.12
85 (50)  Kiribati (British Empire, Gilbert and Ellice Islands →  Kiribati ) 6.10
86 (51)  Sierra Leone (British Empire →  Sierra Leone) 6.09
87 (52)  Chad (French Colonial Empire, French Equatorial Africa, French Chad →  Chad) 6.06
88 (53)  Greenland (Denmark) 6.05
89  South Africa 6.04
90 (54)  Maldives (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Maldives) 6.03
91 (55)  Burkina Faso (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa →   →  Burkina Faso) 6.03
92  Burma (→  Myanmar) 6.03
93 (56)  Saint Lucia (British Empire, West Indies Federation →  Saint Lucia) 6.00
94 (57)  Comoros (French Colonial Empire →  Comoros) 6.00
95 (58)  French Polynesia (French Colonial Empire → France) 6.00
96 (59)   (Belgian Colonial Empire, Belgian Congo →   →  Zaire →  DR Congo) 5.99
97 (60)  Guinea (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa, French Guinea →  Guinea 5.97
98 (61)   ( South Africa →  Namibia) 5.96
99  Nepal 5.96
100  Albania 5.96
101  Laos (French Colonial Empire, French Indochina, French Laos →  Laos) 5.94
102 (62)  Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Guinea →  Guinea-Bissau) 5.92
103  India 5.91
104 (63)  Mauritius (British Empire →  Mauritius) 5.90
105 (64)  Lesotho (British Empire →  Lesotho) 5.81
106 (65)  Grenada (British Empire →  Grenada) 5.80
107  Lebanon 5.76
108 (66)   (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa →   →  Benin) 5.75
109 (67)  Guyana (British Empire →  Guyana) 5.69
110  Panama 5.68
111 (68)  Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Empire, Spanish Guinea →  Equatorial Guinea) 5.68
112 (69)  Congo (French Colonial Empire, French Congo, French Equatorial Africa →  Congo) 5.67
113  Costa Rica 5.65
114 (70)  Aruba (Netherlands) 5.65
115  Sri Lanka 5.64
116 (71)  Cameroon (United Nations Trust Territories, French Colonial Empire, French Equatorial Africa, French Cameroons →  Cameroon) 5.54
117 (72)   ( Yugoslavia →  North Macedonia) 5.52
118  Mongolia 5.50
119 (73)  Central African Republic (French Colonial Empire, French Equatorial Africa, Ubangi-Shari →  Central African Republic) 5.40
120  Indonesia 5.35
121 (74)   ( Yugoslavia →  Bosnia and Herzegovina) 5.32
122 (75)  Trinidad and Tobago (British Empire, West Indies Federation →  Trinidad and Tobago) 5.28
123 (76)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) 5.25
124 (77)  Gambia (British Empire, Gambia Colony and Protectorate →  Gambia) 5.23
125 (78)  New Caledonia (French colonial Empire → France) 5.22
126 (79)   ( Soviet Union →  Uzbekistan) 5.08
127 (80)  French Guiana (French Colonial Empire → France) 5.08
128  Chile 5.08
129 (81)   ( Soviet Union →  Azerbaijan) 5.07
130 (82)   ( Soviet Union →  Tajikistan) 5.04
131  South Korea 5.02
132 (83)  Puerto Rico (US) 4.97
  World 4.96
133 (84)  Vietnam (French Colonial Empire, French Indochina, French Vietnam →   and   →  Vietnam) 4.96
134 (85)   ( Soviet Union →  Turkmenistan) 4.89
135  Cuba 4.76
136 (86)   ( Yugoslavia →  Montenegro) 4.62
137  Israel 4.52
138 (87)  Antigua and Barbuda (British Empire →  Antigua and Barbuda) 4.50
139 (88)  Hong Kong (British Empire, Hong Kong colony →  China, Special administrative regions of China) 4.44
140 (89)  Barbados (British Empire →  Barbados) 4.42
141 (90)  Macau (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Macau →  China, Special administrative regions of China) 4.39
142 (91)   ( Soviet Union →  Kazakhstan) 4.30
143 (92)  Malta (British Empire →  Malta) 4.14
144 (93)   ( Soviet Union →  Armenia ) 4.13
145 (94)  Bahamas (British Empire →  Bahamas) 3.98
146 (95)  Gabon (French Colonial Empire, French Congo, French Equatorial Africa →  Gabon 3.95
147 (96)   ( Soviet Union →  Kyrgyzstan) 3.92
148 (97)  Cyprus (British Empire, British Cyprus →  Cyprus) 3.85
149 (98)  Jamaica (British Empire, Colony of Jamaica →  Jamaica) 3.80
150  Iceland 3.62
151 (99)  ' 3.59
152  Poland 3.53
153 (100)   ( Yugoslavia →  Serbia and Montenegro →  Serbia) 3.53
154  Canada 3.47
155  Ireland 3.47
156 (101)   ( Soviet Union →  Moldova) 3.47
157  Japan 3.44
158  New Zealand 3.38
159  Argentina 3.16
160  Finland 3.13
161  Portugal 3.10
162  United States 3.05
163  Netherlands 3.05
164  Romania 3.05
165  Australia 3.01
166 (102)   2.94
167 (103)   ( Yugoslavia →  Croatia) 2.92
168 (104)   ( Soviet Union →  Lithuania) 2.90
169 (105)   ( Yugoslavia →  Slovenia) 2.87
170  France 2.83
171 (106)   ( Soviet Union →  Russia) 2.81
172  Hungary 2.77
173 (107)   ( Soviet Union →  Ukraine) 2.72
174  Uruguay 2.69
175  Bulgaria 2.66
176 (108)   ( Soviet Union →  Georgia) 2.65
177  Denmark 2.58
178  Italy 2.50
179 (109)   ( Soviet Union →  Belarus) 2.50
180  Greece 2.47
181  Norway 2.46
182  Spain 2.45
183  Belgium 2.33
184  Switzerland 2.33
185  Sweden 2.25
  Population Replacement 2.10
186 (110)   ( Soviet Union →  Estonia) 2.09
187  Germany ( West Germany and   →  Germany) 2.09
188  United Kingdom 2.08
189 Channel Islands - (111)  Guernsey (UK) and (112)  Jersey (UK) 2.06
190 (113)   ( Soviet Union →  Latvia) 2.01
191  North Korea 1.95
192  Austria 1.87
193  Luxembourg 1.87
  Sovereign States: 80
  Dependent Territories: 113
  World
World 4.96
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1 (1)  American Samoa (US) -
2  Andorra -
3 (2)  Bermuda (UK) -
4 (3)  Cayman Islands (UK) -
5 (4)  Curaçao (Netherlands) -
6  Czechoslovakia (Dissolved in 1992) -
7 (5)  Dominica (British Colonial Empire →  Dominica) -
8 (6)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
9 (7)  Gibraltar (UK) -
10 (8)  Guadeloupe (French Colonial Empire → France) -
11 (9)  Guam (US) -
12 (10)  Isle of Man (UK) -
13 (11)   ( Yugoslavia →  Serbia and Montenegro →  Serbia →  Kosovo) -
14  Liechtenstein -
15 (12)  Marshall Islands (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Marshall Islands) -
16 (13)  Mayotte (French Colonial Empire → France) -
17  Monaco -
18  Nauru -
19 (14)  Northern Mariana Islands (US) -
20 (15)  Palau (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Palau) -
21 (16)  Palestine (Jordan, West Bank and Egypt, Gaza Strip → Israeli occupied territories → Palestinian territories) -
22  San Marino -
23 (17)  Seychelles (British Colonial Empire, Crown colony →  Seychelles) -
24 (18)   (French part) -
25 (19)  Sint Maarten (Dutch part) -
26 (20)  Saint Kitts and Nevis (British Colonial Empire →  Saint Kitts and Nevis) -
27  Soviet Union (dissolved in 1991) -
28 (21)  Turks and Caicos Islands (British Colonial Empire → UK) -
29 (22)  Tuvalu (British Empire, Gilbert and Ellice Islands → Ellice Islands →  Tuvalu) -
30  Vatican City -
31  Yugoslavia (dissolved in 1992) -
  Sovereign States: 9
  Dependent Territories: 22
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 2015
(births/woman)
1  Niger 7.29
2  Somalia 6.37
3  DR Congo 6.20
4  Mali 6.14
5  Chad 6.05
6  Angola 5.77
7  Burundi 5.78
8  Uganda 5.68
9  East Timor 5.62
10  Nigeria 5.59
11  Gambia 5.49
12  Burkina Faso 5.44
13  Mozambique 5.30
14  Tanzania 5.08
15  Benin 5.05
16  Zambia 5.04
17  Ivory Coast 4.98
18  Central African Republic 4.94
19  South Sudan 4.94
20  Guinea 4.93
21  Senegal 4.84
22  Afghanistan 4.80
23  Equatorial Guinea 4.78
24  Cameroon 4.78
25  Mauritania 4.74
26  Congo 4.72
27  Guinea-Bissau 4.71
28  Malawi 4.65
29  Liberia 4.65
30  Sudan 4.59
31  Sierra Leone 4.56
32  São Tomé and Príncipe 4.52
33  Togo 4.52
34  Iraq 4.43
35  Comoros 4.42
36  Ethiopia 4.32
37  Madagascar 4.24
38  Eritrea 4.21
39  Yemen 4.10
40  Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank) 4.08
41  Ghana 4.04
42  Samoa 4.03
43  Rwanda 3.97
44  Kenya 3.92
45  Solomon Islands 3.91
46  Gabon 3.85
47  Zimbabwe 3.84
48  Papua New Guinea 3.71
49  Kiribati 3.69
50  Tonga 3.68
51  Pakistan 3.55
52  Namibia 3.47
53  Jordan 3.44
54  Tajikistan 3.40
55  Egypt 3.31
56  Vanuatu 3.31
57  Micronesia 3.20
58  Swaziland 3.14
59  Lesotho 3.14
60  Kyrgyzstan 3.05
61  Guatemala 3.03
62  Israel 3.00
63  Haiti 2.97
64  Syria 2.97
65  Philippines 2.96
66  Turkmenistan 2.93
67  Bolivia 2.92
68  Djibouti 2.91
69  Algeria 2.84
70  Mongolia 2.79
71  Botswana 2.77
72  Laos 2.76
73  Oman 2.74
74  Kazakhstan 2.66
75  Cambodia 2.59
76  Saudi Arabia 2.58
77  Belize 2.54
78  Fiji 2.54
79  Panama 2.54
80  Guyana 2.53
81  Morocco 2.53
82  Ecuador 2.51
83  Paraguay 2.51
84  Honduras 2.51
85  South Africa 2.48
86  Dominican Republic 2.45
  World 2.45
87  Peru 2.43
88  Suriname 2.40
89  Indonesia 2.39
90  Cape Verde 2.37
91 (1)  Guam (US) 2.37
92  India 2.35
93  Venezuela 2.34
94  Uzbekistan 2.31
95  Libya 2.31
96  Argentina 2.31
97  Seychelles 2.30
98  Nicaragua 2.23
99  Myanmar (Burma) 2.23
100  Tunisia 2.22
101  Mexico 2.21
102 (2)  New Caledonia (France) 2.19
103  Nepal 2.16
104  Bangladesh 2.13
105  Grenada 2.13
106  Maldives 2.13
107  El Salvador 2.10
  Population Replacement 2.10
108  Bhutan 2.09
109  Azerbaijan 2.09
110  Turkey 2.07
111  Antigua and Barbuda 2.06
112  Sri Lanka 2.06
113  Bahrain 2.06
114  Malaysia 2.06
115  Jamaica 2.03
116  Uruguay 2.01
117  Georgia 2.00
118 (3)  Greenland (Denmark) 2.00
119 (4)  French Polynesia (France) 2.00
120  New Zealand 2.00
121  Kuwait 1.99
122  Ireland 1.99
123  France 1.98
124  Vietnam 1.96
125  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.95
126  Iceland 1.95
127  Qatar 1.93
128  North Korea 1.92
129  Sweden 1.91
130 (5)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 1.90
131  Brunei 1.88
132  United Kingdom 1.88
133  Colombia 1.87
134  United States 1.87
135  Australia 1.86
136  Norway 1.82
137  Costa Rica 1.80
138  Barbados 1.80
139  Belgium 1.79
140  Chile 1.78
141  Bahamas 1.78
142  Trinidad and Tobago 1.77
143  Finland 1.77
144  United Arab Emirates 1.76
145  Denmark 1.73
146  Russia 1.73
147  Netherlands 1.73
148  Brazil 1.73
149 (6)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) 1.73
150  Lebanon 1.72
151  Cuba 1.72
152  Albania 1.71
153  Belarus 1.69
154  Iran 1.69
155  Montenegro 1.68
156  Lithuania 1.64
157  Armenia 1.62
158  Estonia 1.62
159  China 1.62
160  Slovenia 1.61
161 (7)  Aruba (Netherlands) 1.60
162  Canada 1.59
163  Switzerland 1.54
164  Bulgaria 1.54
165  Latvia 1.53
166  Ukraine 1.53
167  Czech Republic 1.52
168  North Macedonia 1.52
169  Romania 1.51
170  Luxembourg 1.50
171 Channel Islands - (8)  Guernsey (UK) and (9)  Jersey (UK) 1.50
172  Thailand 1.50
173  Austria 1.48
174  Saint Lucia 1.47
175  Serbia 1.46
176  Croatia 1.46
177  Italy 1.46
178  Germany 1.45
179  Japan 1.44
180  Slovakia 1.43
181 (10)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.43
182  Malta 1.42
183  Hungary 1.36
184  Mauritius 1.36
185  Spain 1.35
186  Cyprus 1.35
187  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.34
188  Poland 1.31
189  Greece 1.31
190  South Korea 1.28
191  Moldova 1.25
192  Portugal 1.25
193  Singapore 1.24
194 (11)  Macau (China) 1.20
195 (12)  Hong Kong (China) 1.20
  Sovereign States: 183
  Dependent Territories: 12
  World
World 2.45
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1 (1)  American Samoa (US) -
2  Andorra -
3 (2)  Bermuda (UK) -
4 (3)  Cayman Islands (UK) -
5  Dominica -
6 (4)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
7 (5)  French Guiana (France) -
8 (6)  Guadeloupe (France) -
9 (7)  Isle of Man (UK) -
10  Kosovo -
11  Liechtenstein -
12  Marshall Islands -
13 (8)  Mayotte (France) -
14  Monaco -
15 (9)  Northern Mariana Islands (US) -
16  Palau -
17  San Marino -
18 (10)   (French part) -
19 (11)  Sint Maarten (Dutch part) -
20  Saint Kitts and Nevis -
21 (12)  Turks and Caicos Islands UK) -
22  Tuvalu -
23  Vatican City -
  Sovereign States: 11
  Dependent Territories: 12

Notes:

(→) Country that changed name and flag, dependent territory that is now an independent country (sovereign state) from another current or extinct (dissolved) state or empire, former dependent territory from a sovereign state or empire that was included in another sovereign state.

(-) Data unavailable, inapplicable, not collected or country or dependent territory not included. Sovereign states and dependent territories listed by alphabetical order, not ranked.

1960 and 2015[]

1960 List by the World Bank 2015 List by the World Bank
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 1960
(births/woman)
1 (1)  Rwanda (Belgian overseas colonies, Ruanda-Urundi → United Nations trust territories →  Rwanda) 8.19
2 (2)  Kenya (British Empire, Kenya Colony →  Kenya) 7.95
3  Ivory Coast 7.69
4  Jordan 7.69
5 (3)  Samoa (United Nations trust territories, Western Samoa →  Samoa) 7.65
6  Morocco 7.55
7 (4)  Algeria (French Colonial Empire, French Algeria →  Algeria) 7.52
8  Yemen (  and   →  Yemen) 7.49
9 (5)  Angola (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Angola →  Angola 7.48
10  Syria 7.47
11  Honduras 7.46
12  Afghanistan 7.45
13  Niger 7.45
14 (6)  Tonga (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Tonga) 7.36
15  Nicaragua 7.34
16  Madagascar 7.30
17  Somalia 7.25
18  Oman 7.25
19 (7)  Kuwait (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Kuwait) 7.24
20 (8)  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (British Empire →  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) 7.22
21  Saudi Arabia 7.22
22  Libya 7.20
23 (9)   (British and French Condominium →  Vanuatu) 7.20
24 (10)   (British Empire, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland →  Zimbabwe) 7.16
25  Philippines 7.15
26 (11)   (British Empire, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland →  Zambia) 7.12
27 (12)  Bahrain (British Empire →  Bahrain) 7.09
28  Dominican Republic 7.04
29 (13)  Maldives (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Maldives) 7.02
30 (14)  Uganda (British Empire →  Uganda) 7.00
31  Senegal 7.00
32  Mali 6.97
33  Peru 6.97
34 (15)  Saint Lucia (British Empire, West Indies Federation →  Saint Lucia) 6.97
35 (16)  Qatar (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Qatar) 6.97
36  Cambodia 6.97
37 (17)  Burundi (Belgian overseas colonies, Ruanda-Urundi → United Nations trust territories →  Burundi) 6.95
38 (18)  Mozambique (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Mozambique →  Mozambique) 6.95
39  Mongolia 6.95
40 (19)  Malawi (British Empire, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Nyasaland Protectorate →  Malawi) 6.94
41  Tunisia 6.94
42 (20)  Micronesia (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Micronesia) 6.93
43 (21)  United Arab Emirates (British Empire, Trucial States →  United Arab Emirates) 6.93
44  Iran 6.93
45  Guatemala 6.90
46 (22)  Eritrea ( Ethiopia →  Eritrea) 6.90
47  Ethiopia 6.88
48 (23)  Cape Verde (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Cape Verde →  Cape Verde) 6.88
49 (24)  Brunei (British Empire, British Protectorate →  Brunei) 6.84
50  Colombia 6.81
51 (25)  Tanzania (British Empire, Tanganyika and Zanzibar →  Tanzania) 6.81
52 (26)  Comoros (French Colonial Empire →  Comoros) 6.79
53 (27)  Kiribati (British Empire, Gilbert and Ellice Islands →  Kiribati ) 6.79
54  Mauritania 6.78
55  Mexico 6.77
56  Ghana 6.75
57  Grenada 6.74
58 (28)  South Sudan ( Sudan →  South Sudan) 6.72
59 (29)  Bangladesh (Pakistan, East Pakistan →  Bangladesh) 6.72
60  Ecuador 6.72
61 (30)  Swaziland (British Empire →  Swaziland) 6.72
62  Egypt 6.72
63  Bolivia 6.70
64  Sudan 6.69
65  El Salvador 6.67
66  Bhutan 6.67
67  Venezuela 6.62
68 (31)  Botswana (British Empire, Bechuanaland Protectorate →  Botswana) 6.62
69 (32)  Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands →  Suriname) 6.61
70  Pakistan 6.60
71 (33)   ( Soviet Union →  Turkmenistan) 6.59
72 (34)   ( Soviet Union →  Tajikistan) 6.55
73  Togo 6.52
74  Paraguay 6.50
75  Belize 6.50
76  Albania 6.49
77 (35)  Djibouti (French Colonial Empire, French Somaliland →  Djibouti) 6.46
78 (36)  Fiji (British Empire →  Fiji) 6.46
79  Costa Rica 6.45
80  Malaysia 6.45
81  Liberia 6.41
82 (37)  Solomon Islands (British Empire →  Solomon Islands) 6.39
83 (38)  East Timor (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Timor →  East Timor) 6.37
84 (39)  Guyana (British Empire →  Guyana) 6.37
85  Turkey 6.37
86  Nigeria 6.35
87  Vietnam (  and   →  Vietnam) 6.35
88  Haiti 6.32
89   (→  Burkina Faso) 6.29
90  Benin 6.28
91 (40)  New Caledonia (French colonial Empire → France) 6.28
92 (41)   (United Nations trust territories →  Papua New Guinea 6.28
93  Chad 6.25
94  Iraq 6.25
95 (42)   ( Soviet Union →  Uzbekistan) 6.25
96 (43)  São Tomé and Príncipe (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Sao Tome and Principe →  São Tomé and Príncipe) 6.24
97 (44)  Mauritius (British Empire →  Mauritius) 6.17
98 (45)   ( South Africa →  Namibia) 6.15
99  Thailand 6.15
100 (46)  Sierra Leone (British Empire →  Sierra Leone) 6.13
101  Guinea 6.11
102  South Korea 6.09
103  Brazil 6.07
104  Myanmar (Burma) 6.05
105 (47)  Guam (US) 6.05
106  South Africa 6.04
107   (→  Zaire →  DR Congo) 6.00
108  Laos 5.96
109  Nepal 5.96
110 (48)  Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Guinea →  Guinea-Bissau) 5.92
111  India 5.91
112  Congo 5.88
113 (49)   ( Soviet Union →  Azerbaijan) 5.88
114  Panama 5.87
115  Central African Republic 5.84
116 (50)  Lesotho (British Empire →  Lesotho) 5.84
117  Singapore 5.76
118  China 5.75
119  Lebanon 5.74
120  Indonesia 5.67
121 (51)  French Polynesia (French Colonial Empire → France) 5.66
122  Cameroon 5.65
123 (52)  Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Empire, Spanish Guinea →  Equatorial Guinea) 5.65
124 (53)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) 5.62
125 (54)  Gambia (British Empire, Gambia Colony and Protectorate →  Gambia) 5.57
126  Sri Lanka 5.54
127 (55)   ( Soviet Union →  Kyrgyzstan) 5.47
128 (56)  Jamaica (British Empire, Colony of Jamaica →  Jamaica) 5.42
129 (57)  Trinidad and Tobago (British Empire, West Indies Federation →  Trinidad and Tobago) 5.26
130  Chile 5.10
131  Hong Kong (British Empire, Hong Kong colony →  China, Special administrative regions of China) 5.01
  World 4.99
132 (58)  Aruba (Netherlands) 4.82
133 (59)   ( Soviet Union →  Armenia ) 4.79
134 (60)  Macau (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Macau →  China, Special administrative regions of China) 4.77
135 (61)  Puerto Rico (US) 4.66
136  North Korea 4.58
137 (62)   ( Soviet Union →  Kazakhstan) 4.56
138 (63)  Bahamas (British Empire →  Bahamas) 4.50
139 (64)  Antigua and Barbuda (British Empire →  Antigua and Barbuda) 4.42
140  Gabon 4.38
141 (65)  Barbados (British Empire →  Barbados) 4.33
142  Iceland 4.29
143  Cuba 4.18
144  New Zealand 4.03
145  Israel 3.87
146 (66)   ( Yugoslavia →  North Macedonia) 3.84
147  Canada 3.81
148 (67)   ( Yugoslavia →  Bosnia and Herzegovina) 3.80
149  Ireland 3.78
150  United States 3.65
151 (68)  Malta (British Empire →  Malta) 3.62
152 (69)   ( Yugoslavia →  Montenegro) 3.60
153  Cyprus 3.50
154  Australia 3.45
155 (70)   ( Soviet Union →  Moldova) 3.33
156  Portugal 3.16
157  Netherlands 3.12
158  Argentina 3.11
159 (71)   3.04
160  Poland 2.98
161 (72)   ( Soviet Union →  Georgia) 2.94
162  Uruguay 2.88
163  Spain 2.86
164  France 2.85
165  Norway 2.85
166  Finland 2.72
167  Austria 2.69
168  United Kingdom 2.69
169 (73)   ( Soviet Union →  Belarus) 2.67
170  Denmark 2.57
171 (74)   (  →  Lithuania) 2.56
172  Belgium 2.54
173 (75)   ( Soviet Union →  Russia) 2.52
174  Switzerland 2.44
175 Channel Islands -  Guernsey (UK) and  Jersey (UK) 2.42
176  Italy 2.40
177  Germany ( West Germany and   →  Germany) 2.37
178 (76)   ( Yugoslavia →  Slovenia) 2.34
179  Romania 2.34
180  Greece 2.33
181  Bulgaria 2.31
182 (77)   ( Yugoslavia →  Croatia) 2.29
183  Luxembourg 2.29
184 (78)   ( Soviet Union →  Ukraine) 2.24
185  Sweden 2.17
  Population Replacement 2.10
186 (79)   2.09
187  Hungary 2.02
188  Japan 2.00
189 (80)   ( Soviet Union →  Estonia) 1.98
190 (81)   ( Soviet Union →  Latvia) 1.94
  Sovereign States: 109
  Dependent Territories: 81
  World
World 4.99
  Major Regions
1 Arab World 6.95
2 Middle East and North Africa (excluding high income) 6.94
3 Middle East and North Africa 6.88
4 Pacific island small states 6.77
5 Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 6.64
6 Sub-Saharan Africa 6.64
7 South Asia 6.05
8 Latin America and Caribbean (excluding high income) 6.02
9 Latin America and Caribbean 5.93
10 East Asia and Pacific (excluding high income) 5.82
11 East Asia and Pacific 5.39
12 North America 3.67
13 Europe and Central Asia (excluding high income) 3.13
14 Europe and Central Asia 2.83
15 Central Europe and the Baltics 2.50
  States’ Size
1 Caribbean small states 5.60
2 Small states 5.31
3 Other small states 5.06
  International Organizations
OECD members 3.23
  Security Situation
Fragile and conflict affected situations 6.59
  Economic Situation
1 Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 6.75
2 Least developed countries: UN classification 6.68
  Economic Income
1 Low income 6.52
2 Lower middle income 5.93
3 Low and middle income 5.66
4 Middle income 5.59
5 Upper middle income 5.31
6 High income 3.04
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1 (1)  American Samoa (US) -
2  Andorra -
3 (2)  Bermuda (UK) -
4 (3)  Cayman Islands (UK) -
5 (4)  Curaçao (Netherlands) -
6  Czechoslovakia (Dissolved in 1992) -
7 (5)  Dominica (British Colonial Empire →  Dominica) -
8 (6)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
9 (7)  French Guiana (French Colonial Empire → France) -
10 (8)  Gibraltar (UK) -
11 (9)  Greenland (Denmark) -
12 (10)  Guadeloupe (French Colonial Empire → France) -
13 (11)  Isle of Man (UK) -
14 (12)   ( Yugoslavia →  Serbia and Montenegro →  Serbia →  Kosovo) -
15  Liechtenstein -
16 (13)  Marshall Islands (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Marshall Islands) -
17 (14)  Mayotte (French Colonial Empire → France) -
18  Monaco -
19  Nauru -
20 (15)  Northern Mariana Islands (US) -
21 (16)  Palau (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Palau) -
22 (17)  Palestine (Jordan, West Bank and Egypt, Gaza Strip → Israeli occupied territories → Palestinian territories) -
23  San Marino -
24 (18)   ( Yugoslavia →  Serbia and Montenegro →  Serbia) -
25 (19)  Seychelles (British Colonial Empire, Crown colony →  Seychelles) -
26 (20)   (French part) -
27 (21)  Sint Maarten (Dutch part) -
28 (22)  Saint Kitts and Nevis (British Colonial Empire →  Saint Kitts and Nevis) -
29  Soviet Union (dissolved in 1991) -
30 (23)  Turks and Caicos Islands (British Colonial Empire → UK) -
31 (24)  Tuvalu (British Empire, Gilbert and Ellice Islands → Ellice Islands →  Tuvalu) -
32  Vatican City -
33  Yugoslavia (dissolved in 1992) -
  Sovereign States: 9
  Dependent Territories: 24
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 2015
(births/woman)
1  Niger 7.29
2  Somalia 6.37
3  DR Congo 6.20
4  Mali 6.14
5  Chad 6.05
6  Angola 5.77
7  Burundi 5.78
8  Uganda 5.68
9  East Timor 5.62
10  Nigeria 5.59
11  Gambia 5.49
12  Burkina Faso 5.44
13  Mozambique 5.31
14  Tanzania 5.08
15  Benin 5.05
16  Zambia 5.04
17  Ivory Coast 4.98
18  Central African Republic 4.94
19  South Sudan 4.94
20  Guinea 4.93
21  Senegal 4.84
22  Afghanistan 4.80
23  Equatorial Guinea 4.78
24  Cameroon 4.78
25  Mauritania 4.74
26  Congo 4.72
27  Guinea-Bissau 4.71
28  Malawi 4.65
29  Liberia 4.65
30  Sudan 4.60
31  Sierra Leone 4.56
32  São Tomé and Príncipe 4.52
33  Togo 4.52
34  Iraq 4.43
35  Comoros 4.42
36  Ethiopia 4.32
37  Madagascar 4.24
38  Eritrea 4.21
39  Yemen 4.10
40  Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank) 4.08
41  Ghana 4.04
42  Samoa 4.03
43  Rwanda 3.97
44  Kenya 3.92
45  Solomon Islands 3.91
46  Gabon 3.85
47  Zimbabwe 3.84
48  Papua New Guinea 3.71
49  Kiribati 3.69
50  Tonga 3.68
51  Pakistan 3.55
52  Namibia 3.47
53  Jordan 3.45
54  Tajikistan 3.40
55  Egypt 3.31
56  Vanuatu 3.31
57  Micronesia 3.20
58  Kyrgyzstan 3.20
59  Swaziland 3.14
60  Lesotho 3.14
61  Israel 3.09
62  Guatemala 3.03
63  Haiti 2.97
64  Syria 2.97
65  Philippines 2.96
66  Turkmenistan 2.93
67  Bolivia 2.92
68  Djibouti 2.91
69  Algeria 2.84
70  Mongolia 2.79
71  Botswana 2.77
72  Laos 2.76
73  Oman 2.74
74  Kazakhstan 2.73
75  Cambodia 2.59
76  Saudi Arabia 2.58
77  Belize 2.54
78  Fiji 2.54
79  Panama 2.54
80  Guyana 2.53
81  Morocco 2.53
82  Ecuador 2.51
83  Paraguay 2.51
84  Honduras 2.51
85  Uzbekistan 2.49
86  South Africa 2.49
87  Dominican Republic 2.45
  World 2.45
88  Peru 2.43
89  Suriname 2.40
90  Indonesia 2.39
91  Cape Verde 2.37
92 (1)  Guam (US) 2.37
93  India 2.35
94  Venezuela 2.34
95  Libya 2.31
96  Argentina 2.31
97  Seychelles 2.30
98  Nicaragua 2.23
99  Myanmar (Burma) 2.23
100  Tunisia 2.22
101  Mexico 2.22
102 (2)  New Caledonia (France) 2.22
103  Nepal 2.16
104  Bangladesh 2.13
105  Grenada 2.13
106  Maldives 2.13
107  El Salvador 2.10
  Population Replacement 2.10
108  Bhutan 2.09
109  Turkey 2.07
110  Antigua and Barbuda 2.06
111  Sri Lanka 2.06
112  Bahrain 2.06
113  Malaysia 2.06
114  Jamaica 2.03
115  France 2.01
116  Uruguay 2.01
117  Georgia 2.00
118 (3)  Greenland (Denmark) 2.00
119 (4)  French Polynesia (France) 2.00
120  New Zealand 1.99
121  Kuwait 1.99
122  Azerbaijan 1.97
123  Vietnam 1.96
124  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.95
125  Ireland 1.94
126  Iceland 1.93
127  Qatar 1.93
128  North Korea 1.92
129 (5)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 1.90
130  Brunei 1.88
131  Sweden 1.88
132  Colombia 1.87
133  United States 1.84
134  Australia 1.83
135  United Kingdom 1.81
136  Costa Rica 1.80
137  Barbados 1.80
138  Chile 1.79
139  Bahamas 1.78
140  Trinidad and Tobago 1.77
141  United Arab Emirates 1.77
142  Norway 1.75
143  Russia 1.73
144  Belgium 1.73
145  Brazil 1.73
146 (6)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) 1.72
147  Belarus 1.72
148  Lebanon 1.72
149  Cuba 1.72
150  Albania 1.71
151  Netherlands 1.71
152  Finland 1.71
153  Denmark 1.69
154  Iran 1.69
155  Montenegro 1.68
156  Latvia 1.64
157  Lithuania 1.63
158  Armenia 1.62
159  China 1.62
160  Canada 1.60
161 (7)  Aruba (Netherlands) 1.60
162  Slovenia 1.58
163  Switzerland 1.54
164  Estonia 1.54
165  Czech Republic 1.53
166  Bulgaria 1.53
167  North Macedonia 1.52
168  Romania 1.52
169  Ukraine 1.51
170  Germany 1.50
171  Luxembourg 1.50
172 Channel Islands - (8)  Guernsey (UK) and (9)  Jersey (UK) 1.50
173  Thailand 1.50
174  Austria 1.47
175  Saint Lucia 1.47
176  Serbia 1.46
177  Croatia 1.46
178  Japan 1.46
179  Hungary 1.44
180 (10)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.43
181  Malta 1.42
182  Slovakia 1.37
183  Italy 1.37
184  Mauritius 1.36
185  Cyprus 1.35
186  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.35
187  Poland 1.32
188  Spain 1.32
189  Greece 1.30
190  Moldova 1.25
191  Singapore 1.24
192  South Korea 1.24
193  Portugal 1.23
194 (11)  Macau (China) 1.20
195 (13)  Hong Kong (China) 1.20
  Sovereign States: 182
  Dependent Territories: 13
  World
World 2.45
  Major Regions
1 Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 4.9
2 Sub-Saharan Africa 4.9
3 Arab World 3.3
4 Pacific island small states 3.3
5 Middle East and North Africa (excluding high income) 2.9
6 Middle East and North Africa 2.8
7 South Asia 2.6
8 Latin America and Caribbean (excluding high income) 2.1
9 Latin America and Caribbean 2.1
10 North America 1.8
11 East Asia and Pacific (excluding high income) 1.8
12 East Asia and Pacific 1.8
13 Europe and Central Asia (excluding high income) 1.9
14 Europe and Central Asia 1.8
15 Central Europe and the Baltics 1.4
  States’ Size
1 Other Small states 3.2
2 Small states 2.9
3 Caribbean small states 2.1
  International Organizations
1 OECD members 1.7
2 European Union 1.5
  Security Situation
Fragile and conflict affected situations 4.4
  Economic Areas
Euro area 1.5
  Economic Situation
1 Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 4.9
2 Least developed countries: UN classification 4.1
  Economic Income
1 Low income 4.8
2 Lower middle income 2.8
3 Low and middle income 2.6
4 Middle income 2.4
5 Upper middle income 1.8
6 High income 1.7
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1 (1)  American Samoa (US) -
2  Andorra -
3 (2)  Bermuda (UK) -
4 (3)  Cayman Islands (UK) -
5  Dominica -
6 (4)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
7 (5)  French Guiana (France) -
8 (6)  Guadeloupe (France) -
9 (7)  Isle of Man (UK) -
10  Kosovo -
11  Liechtenstein -
12  Marshall Islands -
13 (8)  Mayotte (France) -
14  Monaco -
15 (9)  Northern Mariana Islands (US) -
16  Palau -
17  San Marino -
18 (10)   (French part) -
19 (11)  Sint Maarten (Dutch part) -
20  Saint Kitts and Nevis -
21 (12)  Turks and Caicos Islands UK) -
22  Tuvalu -
23  Vatican City -
  Sovereign States: 11
  Dependent Territories: 12

Notes:

(→) Country that changed name and flag, dependent territory that is now an independent country (sovereign state) from another current or extinct (dissolved) state or empire, former dependent territory from a sovereign state or empire that was included in another sovereign state.

(-) Data unavailable, inapplicable, not collected or country or dependent territory not included. Sovereign states and dependent territories listed by alphabetical order, not ranked.

1970 and 2014[]

1970 List by the Population Reference Bureau 2014 List by the Population Reference Bureau
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 1970
(births/woman)
1  Rwanda 8.2
2  Kenya 8.1
3  Ivory Coast 7.9
4 (1)  Palestine (Israeli-occupied territories → Palestinian Territories) 7.9
5 (2)  Mayotte (French Colonial Empire → French Overseas Department) 7.9
6  Libya 7.9
7  Jordan 7.9
8  Afghanistan 7.7
9  Mongolia 7.6
10  Algeria 7.6
11  Syria 7.6
12  Yemen (  and   →  Yemen) 7.5
13  Zambia 7.4
14  Morocco 7.4
15  Iraq 7.4
16  Niger 7.4
17  Saudi Arabia 7.3
18  Madagascar 7.3
19  Malawi 7.3
20  Burundi 7.3
21  Senegal 7.3
22  Oman 7.3
23 (3)  Angola (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Angola →  Angola) 7.3
24  Honduras 7.3
25  Maldives 7.2
26  Somalia 7.2
27  Kuwait 7.2
28  Samoa 7.2
29 (4)  Comoros (French Colonial Empire →  Comoros) 7.1
30  Togo 7.1
31  Uganda 7.1
32 (5)  Bangladesh ( Pakistan, East Pakistan →  Bangladesh) 7.0
33  Ethiopia 7.0
34  Ghana 7.0
35  Nicaragua 6.9
36 (6)   ( Soviet Union →  Tajikistan) 6.9
37  Mali 6.9
38 (7)  South Sudan ( Sudan →  South Sudan) 6.9
39  Swaziland 6.9
40 (8)  Cape Verde (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Cape Verde →  Cape Verde) 6.9
41 (9)  Micronesia (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Micronesia) 6.9
42 (10)  Qatar (British Empire →  Qatar) 6.9
43  Sudan 6.9
44 (11)  Solomon Islands (British Empire →  Solomon Islands) 6.9
45  Benin 6.8
46  Mauritania 6.8
47 (12)  Djibouti (French Territory of the Afars and the Issas →  Djibouti) 6.8
48  Tanzania 6.8
49  Sierra Leone 6.7
50   (→  Zimbabwe) 6.7
51  Liberia 6.7
52  Mexico 6.7
53 (13)  Eritrea ( Ethiopia →  Eritrea) 6.7
54  Bhutan 6.7
55   (→  Burkina Faso) 6.6
56 (14)  United Arab Emirates (British Empire, Trucial States →  United Arab Emirates) 6.6
57 (15)  Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara → Moroccan Occupation) 6.6
58 (16)  Mozambique (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Mozambique →  Mozambique) 6.6
59  Pakistan 6.6
60  Botswana 6.6
61  Bolivia 6.6
62  Cambodia 6.5
63 (17)  São Tomé and Príncipe (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Sao Tome and Principe →  São Tomé and Príncipe) 6.5
64  Vietnam (  and   →  Vietnam) 6.5
65 (18)  Bahrain (British Empire →  Bahrain) 6.5
66  Nigeria 6.5
67 (19)   ( South Africa →  Namibia) 6.5
68  Chad 6.5
69 (20)   ( Soviet Union →  Uzbekistan) 6.5
70  Iran 6.4
71  Tunisia 6.4
72 (21)   ( Soviet Union →  Turkmenistan) 6.3
73  Peru 6.3
74 (22)   (British and French Condominium →  Vanuatu) 6.3
75  Philippines 6.3
76 (23)  Belize (British Empire →  Belize) 6.3
77  Congo 6.3
78 (24)   (UN Trust Territories →  Papua New Guinea) 6.2
79  Cameroon 6.2
80  Dominican Republic 6.2
81  Guinea 6.2
82  El Salvador 6.2
83   (→  Zaire →  DR Congo) 6.2
84  Guatemala 6.2
85 (25)  Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Guinea →  Guinea-Bissau) 6.1
86  Ecuador 6.1
87 (26)  Saint Lucia (British Empire →  Saint Lucia) 6.1
88 (27)  Gilbert Islands (British Empire →  Kiribati) 6.1
89  Gambia 6.1
90  Central African Republic 6.0
91  Nepal 6.0
92  Burma (→  Myanmar) 6.0
93  Laos 6.0
94 (28)  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (British Empire →  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) 6.0
95  Egypt 5.9
96 (29)  East Timor (Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Timor →  East Timor) 5.9
97  Tonga 5.9
98 (30)  Seychelles (British Empire →  Seychelles) 5.8
99 (31)  Brunei (British Empire →  Brunei) 5.8
100  Lesotho 5.8
101  Haiti 5.8
102  Equatorial Guinea 5.7
103  Turkey 5.7
104  Paraguay 5.7
105 (32)  Suriname (Dutch Empire →  Suriname) 5.7
106  Colombia 5.6
107  Thailand 5.6
108  South Africa 5.6
109  India 5.5
110  China (mainland only) 5.5
111  Indonesia 5.5
112  Jamaica 5.5
113  Venezuela 5.4
114 (33)  New Caledonia (French Colonial Empire → Overseas departments and territories of France) 5.3
115  Panama 5.2
116 (34)  French Polynesia (French Colonial Empire → French Overseas Collectivity) 5.1
116  Gabon 5.1
117  Albania 5.1
118  Guyana 5.1
119  Lebanon 5.0
120  Brazil 5.0
121  Costa Rica 4.9
122  Malaysia 4.9
123 (35)   ( Soviet Union →  Kyrgyzstan) 4.9
124 (36)  Guadeloupe (French Colonial Empire → French Overseas Department) 4.9
125 (37)  Réunion (French Colonial Empire → French Overseas Department) 4.8
126 (38)  French Guiana (French Colonial Empire → French Overseas Department) 4.7
  World 4.7
127 (39)   ( Soviet Union →  Azerbaijan) 4.6
128 (40)  Martinique (French Colonial Empire → French Overseas Department 4.6
129 (41)  Grenada (British Empire →  Grenada) 4.6
130  Fiji 4.5
131  South Korea 4.5
132 (42)  Guam (US) 4.4
133  North Korea 4.3
134  Sri Lanka 4.3
135  Chile 4.0
136  Cuba 4.0
137  Ireland 3.9
138  Republic of China (Taiwan) 3.9
139  Israel 3.8
140  Mauritius 3.8
141 (43)  Antigua and Barbuda (British Empire →  Antigua and Barbuda) 3.7
142  Trinidad and Tobago 3.6
143 (44)  Bahamas (British Empire →  Bahamas) 3.5
144 (45)   ( Soviet Union →  Kazakhstan) 3.5
145 (46)  Curaçao (Dutch Empire → Dutch Caribbean) 3.3
146 (47)  Hong Kong (British Hong Kong →  China) 3.3
147 (48)  Puerto Rico (US) 3.2
148  New Zealand 3.2
149 (49)   ( Soviet Union →  Armenia) 3.2
150  Singapore 3.2
151  Argentina 3.1
152  Barbados 3.1
153 (50)   ( Yugoslavia →  North Macedonia) 3.0
154  Portugal 3.0
155  Australia 2.9
156  Spain 2.9
157  Uruguay 2.9
158  Romania 2.9
159  Iceland 2.8
160 (51)   ( Yugoslavia →  Montenegro) 2.7
161 (52)   ( Yugoslavia →  Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2.7
162  Netherlands 2.6
163 (53)   ( Soviet Union →  Moldova) 2.6
164 (54)   ( Soviet Union →  Georgia) 2.6
165  Norway 2.5
166  Cyprus 2.5
167  United States 2.5
168  France 2.5
169  United Kingdom 2.4
170 (55)   2.4
171 (56)   ( Soviet Union →  Lithuania) 2.4
172 (57)   ( Yugoslavia →  Serbia) 2.4
173  Italy 2.4
174  Greece 2.4
175 (58)   ( Soviet Union →  Belarus) 2.3
176  Poland 2.3
177  Austria 2.3
178  Belgium 2.3
179  San Marino 2.2
180 (59)   ( Yugoslavia →  Slovenia) 2.2
181 (60)  Macau (Portuguese Macau →  China) 2.2
182 (61)   ( Soviet Union →  Estonia) 2.2
183  Bulgaria 2.2
184  Canada 2.2
185  Germany ( West Germany and   →  Germany) 2.1
186 (62)   ( Soviet Union ->  Ukraine) 2.1
187 Channel Islands - (63)  Guernsey and (64)  Jersey (UK) 2.1
188  Switzerland 2.1
189  Japan 2.1
  Population Replacement 2.1
190 (65)   ( Soviet Union →  Latvia) 2.0
191  Denmark 2.0
192  Malta 2.0
193 (66)   ( Soviet Union →  Russia) 2.0
194  Luxembourg 2.0
195  Hungary 2.0
196 (67)   1.9
197  Sweden 1.9
198 (68)   ( Yugoslavia →  Croatia) 1.8
199 (69)  Finland 1.8
  Sovereign States: 130
  Dependent Territories: 69
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1  Andorra -
2  Czechoslovakia (dissolved in 1992) -
3 (1)  Dominica (British Empire →  Dominica) -
4 (2)   (British Empire - Ellice Islands →  Tuvalu) -
5 (3)   ( Yugoslavia →  Serbia and Montenegro →  Serbia →  Kosovo) -
6  Liechtenstein -
7 (4)  Marshall Islands (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Marshall Islands) -
8  Monaco -
9  Nauru -
10 (5)  Palau (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands →  Palau) -
11 (6)  Saint Kitts and Nevis (British Empire →  Saint Kitts and Nevis) -
12  Soviet Union (dissolved in 1991) -
13  Vatican City -
14  Yugoslavia (dissolved in 1992) -
  Sovereign States: 8
  Dependent Territories: 6
Rank Country Fertility rate
in 2014
(births/woman)
1  Niger 7.6
2  South Sudan 7.0
3  Somalia 6.6
4  DR Congo 6.6
5  Chad 6.6
6  Angola 6.2
7  Central African Republic 6.2
8  Burundi 6.1
9  Mali 6.1
10  Zambia 6.0
11  Burkina Faso 5.9
12  Uganda 5.9
13  Mozambique 5.7
14  East Timor 5.7
15  Gambia 5.6
16  Nigeria 5.6
17  Malawi 5.5
18  Senegal 5.3
19  Tanzania 5.3
20  Sudan 5.2
21  Guinea 5.1
22  Cameroon 5.1
23  Afghanistan 5.1
24  Congo 5.0
25  Guinea-Bissau 5.0
26  Benin 4.9
27  Ivory Coast 4.9
28  Sierra Leone 4.9
29  Equatorial Guinea 4.9
30  Eritrea 4.7
31  Liberia 4.7
32  Togo 4.7
33  Samoa 4.7
34  Vanuatu 4.4
35  Yemen 4.4
36  Madagascar 4.4
37  Kenya 4.3
38  São Tomé and Príncipe 4.3
39  Ghana 4.3
40  Comoros 4.3
41  Papua New Guinea 4.3
42  Nauru 4.3
43  Mauritania 4.1
44  Solomon Islands 4.1
45  Gabon 4.1
46  Marshall Islands 4.1
47 (1)  Mayotte (France) 4.1
48  Palestine 4.1
49  Iraq 4.1
50  Ethiopia 4.1
51  Rwanda 4.0
52  Tonga 3.9
53  Kiribati 3.8
54  Tajikistan 3.8
55  Pakistan 3.8
56  Guatemala 3.8
57  Zimbabwe 3.8
58  Namibia 3.6
59 (2)  French Guiana (France) 3.5
60  Micronesia 3.5
61  Jordan 3.5
62  Egypt 3.5
63  Haiti 3.4
64  Swaziland 3.4
65  Djibouti 3.4
66  Lesotho 3.3
67  Bolivia 3.2
68  Laos 3.2
69  Tuvalu 3.2
70  Kyrgyzstan 3.2
71 (3)  Guam (US) 3.1
72  Israel 3.0
73  Syria 3.0
74  Philippines 3.0
75  Mongolia 2.9
76  Saudi Arabia 2.9
77  Algeria 2.9
78  Ecuador 2.8
79  Paraguay 2.8
80  Honduras 2.8
81  Cambodia 2.8
82  Oman 2.8
83  Kazakhstan 2.7
84  Morocco 2.6
85  Suriname 2.6
86  Indonesia 2.6
87  Belize 2.6
88  Botswana 2.6
89  Cape Verde 2.6
90  Fiji 2.5
91  Dominican Republic 2.5
92  Bhutan 2.5
93  Guyana 2.5
94  Panama 2.5
95  Nicaragua 2.5
  World 2.5
96  India 2.4
97  Uzbekistan 2.4
98  Libya 2.4
99  Kuwait 2.4
100  Nepal 2.4
101  Venezuela 2.4
102  Western Sahara 2.4
103  Turkmenistan 2.4
104  Seychelles 2.4
105 (4)  Réunion (France) 2.4
106  Peru 2.4
107  Maldives 2.3
108  South Africa 2.3
109  Jamaica 2.3
110  Argentina 2.3
111  Colombia 2.3
112 (5)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 2.2
113  Tunisia 2.2
114 (6)  New Caledonia (France) 2.2
115  Bangladesh 2.2
116  Mexico 2.2
117  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2.2
118 (7)  Guadeloupe (France) 2.2
119  Azerbaijan 2.2
120  El Salvador 2.2
121  Sri Lanka 2.1
122  Malaysia 2.1
123  Bahrain 2.1
124 (8)  French Polynesia (France) 2.1
125  Turkey 2.1
126  Vietnam 2.1
127  Qatar 2.1
  Population Replacement 2.1
128  New Zealand 2.0
129  Ireland 2.0
130  Myanmar (Burma) 2.0
131  Uruguay 2.0
132  North Korea 2.0
133  Dominica 2.0
134  France 2.0
135  Bahamas 2.0
136  Kosovo 2.0
137  Grenada 2.0
138  Sweden 1.9
139 (9)  Martinique (France) 1.9
140  Australia 1.9
141  United Kingdom 1.9
142  Chile 1.9
143  Iceland 1.9
144  United States 1.9
145  Norway 1.8
146  Finland 1.8
147  Belgium 1.8
148  Barbados 1.8
149  Costa Rica 1.8
150  United Arab Emirates 1.8
151  Antigua and Barbuda 1.8
152  Iran 1.8
153  Thailand 1.8
154  Albania 1.8
155  Montenegro 1.7
156  Netherlands 1.7
157  Georgia 1.7
158  Brazil 1.7
159  Belarus 1.7
160  Palau 1.7
161  Denmark 1.7
162 Channel Islands - (10)  Guernsey and (11)  Jersey (UK) 1.7
163  Russia 1.7
164  Cuba 1.7
165 (12)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.6
166  Croatia 1.6
167  Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.6
168  Trinidad and Tobago 1.6
169  Canada 1.6
170  China (mainland only) 1.6
171  Brunei 1.6
172  Lithuania 1.6
173  Luxembourg 1.6
174  Armenia 1.6
-  EU 1.6
175  North Macedonia 1.5
176  San Marino 1.5
177  Slovenia 1.5
178  Ukraine 1.5
179  Latvia 1.5
180  Estonia 1.5
181  Liechtenstein 1.5
182  Bulgaria 1.5
183  Czech Republic 1.5
184  Switzerland 1.5
185  Saint Lucia 1.5
186  Lebanon 1.5
187  Cyprus 1.5
188  Mauritius 1.4
189  Japan 1.4
190  Austria 1.4
191  Germany 1.4
192  Monaco 1.4
193  Malta 1.4
194  Serbia 1.4
195  Italy 1.4
196  Slovakia 1.3
197  Greece 1.3
198  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.3
199  Romania 1.3
200  Hungary 1.3
201  Spain 1.3
202  Portugal 1.2
203  Singapore 1.2
204  Poland 1.2
205 (13)  Macau (China) 1.2
206  South Korea 1.2
207  Moldova 1.2
208 (14)  Hong Kong (China) 1.1
209  Andorra 1.1
210  Republic of China (Taiwan) 1.1
  Sovereign States: 196
  Dependent Territories: 14
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1  Vatican City -
  Sovereign States: 1
  Dependent Territories: 0

Notes:

(→) Country that changed name and flag, dependent territory that is now an independent country (sovereign state) from another current or extinct (dissolved) state or empire, former dependent territory from a sovereign state or empire that was included in another sovereign state.

(-) Data unavailable, inapplicable, not collected or country or dependent territory not included. Sovereign states and dependent territories listed by alphabetical order, not ranked.

Country ranking by TFR forecast[]

2015-2021 Forecast/Prediction by the UN Population Division 2021-2025 Forecast/Prediction by the UN Population Division
Rank Country Fertility rate
2015–2021 (Medium Variant)
(births/woman)
1  Niger 7.46
2  Somalia 6.12
3  Mali 5.92
4  Chad 5.79
5  Angola 5.79
6  Burundi 5.66
7  DR Congo 5.66
8  Gambia 5.53
9  Uganda 5.46
10  Nigeria 5.41
11  East Timor 5.33
12  Burkina Faso 5.23
13  Zambia 5.14
14  Mozambique 5.12
15  Tanzania 4.92
16  Malawi 4.88
17  Senegal 4.83
18  Ivory Coast 4.77
19  South Sudan 4.73
20  Guinea 4.73
21  Congo 4.64
22  Guinea-Bissau 4.56
23  Equatorial Guinea 4.52
24  Benin 4.50
25  Liberia 4.47
26  Cameroon 4.46
27  Mauritania 4.39
28  São Tomé and Príncipe 4.36
29  Togo 4.35
30  Iraq 4.35
31  Sierra Leone 4.28
32  Afghanistan 4.25
33  Comoros 4.23
34  Madagascar 4.21
35  Sudan 4.13
36  Kenya 4.10
37  Eritrea 4.02
38  Central African Republic 4.02
39  Ethiopia 3.99
40  Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank) 3.95
41  Ghana 3.95
42  Samoa 3.90
43  Yemen 3.79
44  Solomon Islands 3.76
45 (1)  Mayotte (France) 3.73
46  Gabon 3.68
47  Zimbabwe 3.65
48  Rwanda 3.62
49  Papua New Guinea 3.58
50  Tonga 3.58
51  Kiribati 3.58
52  Pakistan 3.38
53  Tajikistan 3.32
54  Namibia 3.31
55  Vanuatu 3.22
56 (2)  French Guiana (France) 3.28
57  Jordan 3.20
58  Egypt 3.16
59  Micronesia 3.08
60  Swaziland 3.06
61  Guatemala 3.03
62  Lesotho 3.01
63  Djibouti 2.99
64  Kyrgyzstan 2.93
65  Morocco 2.93
66  Philippines 2.87
67  Haiti 2.85
68  Bolivia 2.83
69  Laos 2.77
70  Syria 2.77
71  Botswana 2.67
72  Algeria 2.62
73  Saudi Arabia 2.59
74  Mongolia 2.54
75  Cambodia 2.53
76  Kazakhstan 2.53
77  Oman 2.51
78  Fiji 2.48
79  Guyana 2.47
  World 2.47
80  Belize 2.46
81  Paraguay 2.45
82  Ecuador 2.44
83  Israel 2.38
84  Dominican Republic 2.38
85  Panama 2.36
86  Indonesia 2.36
87  Peru 2.35
88  India 2.34
89  Uzbekistan 2.33
90 (3)  Guam (US) 2.32
91  Libya 2.32
92  South Africa 2.28
93  Venezuela 2.28
94  Suriname 2.28
95  Argentina 2.27
96  Honduras 2.25
97  Turkmenistan 2.22
98  Azerbaijan 2.22
99  Seychelles 2.21
100  Cape Verde 2.19
101 (4)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) 2.18
102  Nicaragua 2.16
103  Mexico 2.14
104  Myanmar (Burma) 2.13
105 (5)  Réunion (France) 2.12
106 (6)  Guadeloupe (France) 2.10
  Population Replacement 2.10
107  Nepal 2.09
108  Bangladesh 2.08
109  Grenada 2.08
110  Tunisia 2.07
111  Western Sahara 2.06
112 (7)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 2.05
113  Kuwait 2.04
114 (8)  New Caledonia (France) 2.04
115  Sri Lanka 2.03
116  Antigua and Barbuda 2.03
117  Turkey 2.01
118  Ireland 2.00
119  Jamaica 1.99
120 (9)  French Polynesia (France) 1.99
121  New Zealand 1.99
122  France 1.99
123  Maldives 1.98
124  Bahrain 1.98
125  Uruguay 1.98
126  Qatar 1.95
127  Vietnam 1.95
128  North Korea 1.94
129  Bhutan 1.93
130  Sweden 1.93
131  United Kingdom 1.91
132  Iceland 1.90
133  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.90
134  Malaysia 1.90
135  United States 1.90
136 (10)  Martinique (France) 1.88
137  El Salvador 1.87
138  Australia 1.86
139  Colombia 1.83
140  Bahamas 1.83
141  Belgium 1.83
142  Brunei 1.82
143  Saint Lucia 1.82
144  Georgia 1.82
145  Norway 1.81
146  Barbados 1.80
147  Albania 1.78
148  Finland 1.77
149  Netherlands 1.77
150  Denmark 1.76
151  Costa Rica 1.74
152  Chile 1.73
153  United Arab Emirates 1.73
154  Trinidad and Tobago 1.73
155  Russia 1.72
156  Lebanon 1.71
157  Brazil 1.67
158  Estonia 1.66
159  Montenegro 1.65
160  Slovenia 1.65
161  Belarus 1.64
162  Lithuania 1.63
163  Iran 1.62
164 (11)  Aruba (Netherlands) 1.62
165  Luxembourg 1.61
166  Bulgaria 1.60
167  China 1.59
168 (12)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.59
169  Serbia 1.59
170  Cuba 1.58
171  Switzerland 1.57
172  Canada 1.56
173  Ukraine 1.56
174  Latvia 1.55
175  North Macedonia 1.55
176  Czech Republic 1.54
177  Austria 1.53
178  Romania 1.53
179  Armenia 1.51
180  Italy 1.49
181 Channel Islands - (13)  Jersey (UK) and (14)  Guernsey (UK) 1.49
182  Malta 1.49
183  Croatia 1.48
184  Thailand 1.46
185  Japan 1.46
186  Mauritius 1.44
187  Germany 1.44
188  Slovakia 1.44
189  Cyprus 1.42
190  Hungary 1.40
191  Spain 1.38
192 (15)  Macau (China) 1.34
193  Poland 1.33
194  South Korea 1.33
195  Greece 1.30
196 (16)  Hong Kong (China) 1.30
197  Singapore 1.26
198  Portugal 1.24
199  Moldova 1.23
200  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.23
  Sovereign States: 184
  Dependent Territories: 16
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1 (1)  American Samoa (US) -
2  Andorra -
3 (2)  Anguilla (UK) -
4 (3)  Bermuda (UK) -
5 (4)  British Virgin Islands (UK) -
6 (5)  Cayman Islands (UK) -
7  Cook Islands -
8  Dominica -
9 (6)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
10 (7)  Gibraltar (UK) -
11 (8)  Greenland (Denmark) -
12 (9)  Isle of Man (UK) -
13  Kosovo -
14  Marshall Islands -
15  Monaco -
16 (10)  Montserrat (UK) -
17  Nauru -
18 (11)  Northern Mariana Islands (US) -
19  Palau -
20 (12)  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK) -
21  Saint Kitts and Nevis -
22 (13)  Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) -
23  San Marino -
24 (14)  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) -
25 (15)  Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) -
26  Vatican City -
27 (16)  Wallis and Futuna (France) -
28 (17)  Western Sahara -
  Sovereign States: 11
  Dependent Territories: 17
Rank Country Fertility rate
for 2020-2025
(Medium Variant)
(births/woman)
1  Niger 6.51
2  Somalia 5.66
3  DR Congo 5.46
4  Mali 5.46
5  Chad 5.32
6  Angola 5.21
7  Nigeria 5.08
8  Burundi 5.04
9  Gambia 4.90
10  Burkina Faso 4.83
11  Tanzania 4.63
12  Benin 4.54
13  Mozambique 4.54
14  Uganda 4.44
15  Ivory Coast 4.40
16  Central African Republic 4.38
17  Guinea 4.38
18  Zambia 4.38
19  South Sudan 4.36
20  Senegal 4.34
21  Mauritania 4.32
22  Cameroon 4.29
23  Congo 4.19
24  Guinea-Bissau 4.16
25  Equatorial Guinea 4.15
26  Solomon Islands 4.15
27  Sudan 4.15
28  São Tomé and Príncipe 4.08
29  Togo 4.06
30  Liberia 4.03
31  Comoros 3.93
32  Malawi 3.91
33  Sierra Leone 3.86
34  Afghanistan 3.85
35  Madagascar 3.85
36  Ethiopia 3.82
37  Eritrea 3.76
38  Rwanda 3.73
39  Gabon 3.71
40  Samoa 3.68
41  Ghana 3.65
42  Vanuatu 3.62
43  East Timor 3.60
44  Iraq 3.45
45 (1)  Mayotte (France) 3.44
46  Yemen 3.43
47  Kiribati 3.41
48  Tajikistan 3.40
49  Tonga 3.39
50  Papua New Guinea 3.38
51  Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank) 3.36
52  Zimbabwe 3.32
53  Kenya 3.26
54  Pakistan 3.24
55 (2)  French Guiana (France) 3.19
56  Namibia 3.17
57  Egypt 3.13
58  Lesotho 2.97
59  Morocco 2.93
60  Kyrgyzstan 2.83
61  Eswatini (Swaziland) 2.80
62  Micronesia 2.87
63  Algeria 2.79
64  Haiti 2.74
65  Mongolia 2.73
66  Botswana 2.69
67  Guatemala 2.67
68  Fiji 2.65
69  Syria 2.64
70  Turkmenistan 2.63
71  Kazakhstan 2.62
72  Oman 2.60
73  Bolivia 2.58
74  Jordan 2.58
75  Djibouti 2.52
76  Laos 2.48
77  Philippines 2.45
  World 2.42
78  Cambodia 2.39
79  Guyana 2.37
80  Panama 2.37
81  Seychelles 2.34
82  Paraguay 2.33
83  Ecuador 2.32
84  Honduras 2.32
85  Suriname 2.32
86  South Africa 2.31
87  Uzbekistan 2.31
88  Israel 2.30
89  Nicaragua 2.28
90  Western Sahara 2.27
91 (3)  Guam (US) 2.24
92  Dominican Republic 2.23
93  Indonesia 2.22
94  Argentina 2.20
95  Belize 2.19
96  Venezuela 2.18
97  Saudi Arabia 2.17
98  Peru 2.16
99  Cape Verde 2.15
100  India 2.14
101  Sri Lanka 2.13
102  Libya 2.11
103  Tunisia 2.10
  Population Replacement 2.10
104 (4)  Guadeloupe (France) 2.09
105  Iran 2.09
106  Myanmar (Burma) 2.07
107  Kuwait 2.03
108  Mexico 2.03
109  Georgia 2.02
110  Lebanon 2.02
111  Vietnam 2.02
112  Azerbaijan 1.99
113  Turkey 1.99
114  Grenada 1.98
115 (5)  U.S. Virgin Islands (US) 1.97
116  El Salvador 1.96
117  Antigua and Barbuda 1.95
118  Bangladesh 1.93
119  Malaysia 1.92
120  Uruguay 1.92
121  Jamaica 1.91
122 (6)  New Caledonia (France) 1.90
123  Bahrain 1.89
124 (7)  Aruba (Netherlands) 1.88
125 (8)  French Polynesia (France) 1.88
126  Bhutan 1.87
127  North Korea 1.86
128  France 1.85
129  New Zealand 1.85
130  Sweden 1.84
131 (9)  Martinique (France) 1.83
132  Russia 1.82
133  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.81
134  Nepal 1.80
135  Ireland 1.79
136  Australia 1.78
137  Qatar 1.78
138  United States 1.78
139  Denmark 1.77
140  Maldives 1.77
141  Armenia 1.76
142  Brunei 1.76
143  United Kingdom 1.75
144  Belarus 1.74
145  Latvia 1.74
146  Montenegro 1.74
147  Belgium 1.73
148  Colombia 1.73
149 (10)  Curaçao (Netherlands) 1.72
150  Iceland 1.72
151  Bahamas 1.71
152  China 1.70
153  Lithuania 1.70
154  Norway 1.70
155  Costa Rica 1.68
156  Czech Republic /  Czech Republic 1.68
157  Netherlands 1.68
158  Trinidad and Tobago 1.67
159  Romania 1.65
160  Barbados 1.64
161  Slovenia 1.64
162  Estonia 1.63
163  Bulgaria 1.61
164  Germany 1.61
165  Chile 1.60
166  Austria 1.57
167  Cuba 1.57
168  Slovakia 1.55
169  Switzerland 1.56
170  Albania 1.54
171 Channel Islands - (11)  Guernsey (UK) and (12)  Jersey (UK) 1.54
172  Hungary 1.54
173  Brazil 1.53
174  Malta 1.51
175  Canada 1.48
176  Poland 1.47
177  North Macedonia 1.46
178  Thailand 1.46
179  Ukraine 1.44
180  Finland 1.42
181  Serbia 1.42
182  Croatia 1.41
183 (13)  Hong Kong (China) 1.41
184  Luxembourg 1.41
185  Spain 1.39
186  Saint Lucia 1.38
187  Japan 1.37
188  Mauritius 1.35
189  Portugal 1.35
190  United Arab Emirates 1.35
191  Moldova 1.31
192  Cyprus 1.30
193  Italy 1.30
194 (14)  Macau (China) 1.30
195  Greece 1.26
196  Singapore 1.24
197  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.22
198 (15)  Puerto Rico (US) 1.18
199  South Korea 1.08
  Sovereign States: 184
  Dependent Territories: 15
  World
World 2.42
  Continents
1 Africa 4.16
2 Oceania 2.30
3 Asia 2.09
4 South America 1.87
5 North America 1.76
6 Europe 1.62
  Major Regions
1 Sub-Saharan Africa 4.40
2 Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) 3.27
3 Northern Africa and Western Asia 2.78
4 Central and Southern Asia 2.29
5 Latin America and the Caribbean 1.96
6 Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 1.81
7 Australia and New Zealand 1.80
8 Northern America 1.76
9 Europe and Northern America 1.67
10 Europe 1.62
  Major Subregions
1 Middle Africa 5.12
2 Western Africa 4.85
3 Eastern Africa 4.07
4 Melanesia 3.33
5 Northern Africa 3.07
6 Micronesia 2.72
7 Polynesia 2.65
8 Central Asia 2.62
9 Western Asia 2.52
10 Southern Africa 2.38
11 Southern Asia 2.28
12 South-Eastern Asia 2.14
13 Caribbean 2.11
14 Central America 2.11
15 South America 1.87
16 Northern America 1.76
17 Northern Europe 1.74
18 Western Europe 1.70
19 Eastern Europe 1.67
20 Eastern Asia 1.66
21 Southern Europe 1.36
  UN Development Groups
1 Land-Locked Developing Countries (LLDC) 3.68
2 Less Developed Regions (excluding China) 2.72
3 Less Developed Regions 2.53
3.1 - Least Developed Countries 3.74
3.2 - Less Developed Regions (excluding Least Developed Countries) 2.27
4 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 2.37
5 More Developed Countries 1.65
  World Bank Income Groups
1 Low-income Countries 4.16
2 Middle-income Countries 2.29
3 Lower-middle-income Countries 2.60
4 Upper-middle-income Countries 1.87
5 High Income Countries 1.67
6 No Income Group Available 2.38
  Not Ranked (no data or data from other years)
1 (1)  American Samoa (US) -
2  Andorra -
3 (2)  Bermuda (UK) -
4  British Virgin Islands (UK) -
5 (3)  Cayman Islands (UK) -
6  Dominica -
7 (4)  Faroe Islands (Denmark) -
8 (5)  Gibraltar (UK) -
9 (6)  Greenland (Denmark) -
10 (7)  Isle of Man (UK) -
11  Kosovo -
12  Liechtenstein -
13  Marshall Islands -
14  Monaco -
15  Nauru -
16 (8)  Northern Mariana Islands (US) -
17  Palau -
18  Saint Kitts and Nevis -
19 (9)   (France) (French part) -
20  San Marino -
21 (10)  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) (Dutch part) -
22  Turks and Caicos Islands -
23  Tuvalu -
24  Vatican City -
  Sovereign States: 14
  Dependent Territories: 10

Note:

(-) Data unavailable, inapplicable, not collected or country or dependent territory not included. Sovereign states and dependent territories listed by alphabetical order, not ranked.

See also[]

Case studies:

  • Ageing of Europe
  • Aging of Japan
  • Christian population growth
  • Muslim population growth

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