Country Comparison > Total fertility rate

Rank	Country	Total fertility rate (children born/woman)
1	Niger	7
2	Angola	5.96
3	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.77
4	Mali	5.72
5	Chad	5.68
6	Uganda	5.54
7	South Sudan	5.54
8	Benin	5.53
9	Somalia	5.51
10	Zambia	5.49
11	Malawi	5.31
12	Burundi	5.28
13	Mozambique	4.97
14	Guinea	4.92
15	Liberia	4.9
16	Afghanistan	4.82
17	Guinea-Bissau	4.75
18	Sudan	4.72
19	Nigeria	4.72
20	Cameroon	4.66
21	Sierra Leone	4.62
22	Tanzania	4.59
23	Burkina Faso	4.51
24	Congo, Republic of the	4.45
25	East Timor	4.44
26	Togo	4.22
27	Central African Republic	4.14
28	Ethiopia	4.14
29	Equatorial Guinea	4.11
30	Senegal	4.04
31	Zimbabwe	3.93
32	Ghana	3.9
33	Sao Tome and Principe	3.82
34	Madagascar	3.78
35	Eritrea	3.73
36	Cote d'Ivoire	3.67
37	Mauritania	3.65
38	Western Sahara	3.65
39	Gaza Strip	3.64
40	Pakistan	3.6
41	Rwanda	3.52
42	Kenya	3.43
43	Gabon	3.41
44	Iraq	3.39
45	Egypt	3.29
46	Gambia, The	3.21
47	Yemen	3.2
48	Libya	3.17
49	Namibia	3.07
50	West Bank	3.07
51	Jordan	3.04
52	Solomon Islands	2.97
53	Comoros	2.95
54	Philippines	2.92
55	Syria	2.9
56	Tuvalu	2.88
57	Tonga	2.87
58	Marshall Islands	2.86
59	Papua New Guinea	2.84
60	Guam	2.84
61	Vanuatu	2.79
62	Oman	2.76
63	Guatemala	2.72
64	Belize	2.7
65	Northern Mariana Islands	2.7
66	Nauru	2.68
67	Israel	2.59
68	Algeria	2.59
69	Kyrgyzstan	2.54
70	Laos	2.53
71	Haiti	2.52
72	Swaziland	2.52
73	Tajikistan	2.51
74	Samoa	2.5
75	Lesotho	2.5
76	Bolivia	2.48
77	Botswana	2.45
78	Malaysia	2.43
79	Cambodia	2.39
80	American Samoa	2.35
81	India	2.35
82	Faroe Islands	2.31
83	Fiji	2.31
84	Morocco	2.31
85	Micronesia, Federated States of	2.29
86	Venezuela	2.26
87	Kuwait	2.26
88	Kiribati	2.25
89	Dominican Republic	2.24
90	Panama	2.23
91	South Africa	2.22
92	Argentina	2.21
93	Djibouti	2.19
94	Mexico	2.19
95	Cape Verde	2.16
96	Kazakhstan	2.16
97	Cook Islands	2.12
98	Bangladesh	2.11
99	Ecuador	2.09
100	El Salvador	2.09
101	Honduras	2.09
102	Jamaica	2.07
103	Burma	2.07
104	Tunisia	2.06
105	France	2.06
106	Indonesia	2.04
107	Turkmenistan	2.04
108	Peru	2.04
109	Virgin Islands	2.03
110	Dominica	2.02
111	Sri Lanka	2.01
112	Antigua and Barbuda	1.97
113	Iceland	1.97
114	Grenada	1.96
115	Nepal	1.96
116	Turkey	1.96
117	Saudi Arabia	1.95
118	Mongolia	1.95
119	Kosovo	1.95
120	Iran	1.94
121	Colombia	1.94
122	Greenland	1.94
123	Ireland	1.93
124	Bahamas, The	1.92
125	Korea, North	1.92
126	Bermuda	1.91
127	Isle of Man	1.9
128	Gibraltar	1.9
129	Paraguay	1.89
130	Guyana	1.89
131	Qatar	1.88
132	New Caledonia	1.88
133	Azerbaijan	1.88
134	Costa Rica	1.87
135	New Zealand	1.87
136	Sweden	1.87
137	United Kingdom	1.86
138	Suriname	1.86
139	Norway	1.84
140	United States	1.84
141	Cayman Islands	1.83
142	French Polynesia	1.83
143	Seychelles	1.83
144	Aruba	1.83
145	Bhutan	1.82
146	Nicaragua	1.82
147	Montenegro	1.82
148	Saint Martin	1.8
149	Denmark	1.78
150	Netherlands	1.77
151	Belgium	1.77
152	Chile	1.77
153	Uruguay	1.77
154	Vietnam	1.77
155	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.77
156	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.76
157	Georgia	1.75
158	Brunei	1.75
159	Finland	1.74
160	Anguilla	1.74
161	Australia	1.74
162	Uzbekistan	1.74
163	Saint Lucia	1.73
164	United Arab Emirates	1.73
165	Brazil	1.73
166	Mauritius	1.73
167	Wallis and Futuna	1.71
168	Maldives	1.71
169	Lebanon	1.71
170	Cuba	1.71
171	Trinidad and Tobago	1.7
172	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.7
173	Palau	1.7
174	Bahrain	1.69
175	Liechtenstein	1.69
176	Barbados	1.68
177	Jersey	1.67
178	Armenia	1.65
179	Saint Barthelemy	1.64
180	Luxembourg	1.62
181	Estonia	1.61
182	Russia	1.6
183	Lithuania	1.6
184	China	1.6
185	Saint Helena	1.6
186	Slovenia	1.59
187	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	1.58
188	Moldova	1.58
189	Guernsey	1.57
190	Switzerland	1.57
191	Canada	1.57
192	Ukraine	1.56
193	Monaco	1.55
194	Thailand	1.53
195	Latvia	1.53
196	Albania	1.53
197	San Marino	1.52
198	Spain	1.51
199	Macedonia	1.5
200	Belarus	1.5
201	Austria	1.49
202	Malta	1.49
203	Bulgaria	1.49
204	Czech Republic	1.48
205	Cyprus	1.48
206	Germany	1.47
207	Hungary	1.47
208	Italy	1.47
209	Serbia	1.46
210	Slovakia	1.44
211	Japan	1.43
212	Andorra	1.43
213	Croatia	1.42
214	Portugal	1.41
215	Romania	1.38
216	Poland	1.38
217	Greece	1.38
218	Montserrat	1.36
219	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.33
220	British Virgin Islands	1.33
221	Korea, South	1.29
222	Puerto Rico	1.24
223	Hong Kong	1.21
224	Taiwan	1.14
225	Macau	0.96
226	Singapore	0.87

Definition: This entry gives a figure for the average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given fertility rate at each age. The total fertility rate (TFR) is a more direct measure of the level of fertility than the crude birth rate, since it refers to births per woman. This indicator shows the potential for population change in the country. A rate of two children per woman is considered the replacement rate for a population, resulting in relative stability in terms of total numbers. Rates above two children indicate populations growing in size and whose median age is declining. Higher rates may also indicate difficulties for families, in some situations, to feed and educate their children and for women to enter the labor force. Rates below two children indicate populations decreasing in size and growing older. Global fertility rates are in general decline and this trend is most pronounced in industrialized countries, especially Western Europe, where populations are projected to decline dramatically over the next 50 years.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2020

See also: Total fertility rate map

Related News

Total Fertility
UN News Centre - 5/11/2022 4:54:00 PM
In World Fertility Data 2008 ... data (see also age specific fertility rates). For civil registration systems, total fertility is obtained from country data reported by national statistical ...

How does the global fertility rate compare to replacement rate?
MSN - 5/10/2022 4:01:49 AM
China has been well below replacement rate for some time; India is just hitting that number. What happens to the world when 2.1 stops being a guarantee? Sponsored by EY EY Work Reimagined webcast: How to prepare for renaissance and recommitment Load Error EY 2022 Work Reimagined Survey Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | Stitcher Kira Bindrim is the host of the Quartz Obsession podcast.

Replacement rate: Why do countries care about births?
Quartz on MSN.com - 5/10/2022 4:01:00 AM
Listen to the fourth episode of the Quartz Obsession podcast season 3 on replacement rate. https://player.megaphone.fm/QMIA8036779162 Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | Stitcher Kira Bindrim: You don’t have to look far in popular culture to find anxiety about overpopulation.

Total fertility rate dips in India; find out what it is and how it is calculated
The Indian Express on MSN.com - 5/9/2022 3:20:26 PM
According to National Family Health Survey-5, the current fertility rate is slightly lower than the replacement level of fertility of 2.1 children per woman

India's total fertility rate drops from 2.2 to 2.0, reveals NFHS-5 report
Hindustan Times - 5/10/2022 7:41:00 PM
India's total fertility rate (TFR) has declined from 2.2 in 2015-16 to 2.0 in 2019-21, indicating the significant progress of population control measures, revealed the report of the fifth round of ...

Kenya: Fertility Rate Low in Urban Areas, New Report Shows
AllAfrica.com - 5/6/2022 6:15:00 AM
Nairobi — New data in the latest economic survey report shows that Kenya's fertility rate has gone ... births in 2020 (UN- World Population Prospects, 2021). In 2020, countries with the highest ...

Muslims’ fertility rate sees sharpest decline over two decades, shows health ministry survey
Scroll - 5/10/2022 12:32:00 AM
The fertility rate is 1.88% in Christians, 1.61% in Sikhs, 1.6% in Jains, and 1.39% in the Buddhist and Neo-Buddhist communities. The country’s total fertility rate has dipped to 2, according ...

After 30 years, Vietnam's fertility rate drops by nearly half
Vietnamnet - 1/9/2022 12:18:00 PM
The total fertility rate (TFR) fell from 3.8 children/woman in 1989 to 2.09 children/woman in 2019. Vietnam has maintained a stable fertility rate at replacement level for more than a decade. Having two children is still common in the country. This result ...

Is it time to increase the local fertility rate?
Times of Malta - 8/29/2021 12:59:00 PM
Research shows that in most countries around the world, more males than females ... Consequently, the fact that the fertility rate of boys is higher than that of girls helps to create an ...

India's total fertility rate declines from 2.2 to 2.0: National Family Health Survey
Asian News International - 5/6/2022 12:21:00 PM
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): The report of the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) revealed that the total fertility rate of India ... of the country from 28 States ...