Liste des États souverains et dépendances par taux de fécondité total

Map of countries by total fertility rate (2020–2025), according to UNPD Carte des pays par taux de fécondité total (2020-2025), selon UNPD ^[1]

Il s’agit d’une liste de tous les États souverains et dépendances par indice synthétique de fécondité (ISF): le nombre attendu d’enfants nés par femme dans ses années de procréation.

Méthodologie

Les premières listes indiquent l’année la plus récente pour laquelle des données sur l’indice synthétique de fécondité (ISF) ont été publiées, classées par États souverains et dépendances, et sont classées par type d’organisation – organisation intergouvernementale , gouvernementale ou non gouvernementale qui a recherché, organisé et publié les données.

Classement des pays par listes des années les plus récentes :

Listes de classement des organisations intergouvernementales

Le classement de la Banque mondiale est basé sur les données de l’année 2018 publiées en ligne. ^[2] La Banque mondiale est une institution financière internationale des Nations Unies , une composante du Groupe de la Banque mondiale et un membre du Groupe des Nations Unies pour le développement., mais il collecte et analyse également des informations sur les questions démographiques à partir de sources internationales et nationales : (1) Division de la population des Nations Unies. World Population Prospects, (2) Division de statistique des Nations Unies. Rapport sur la population et les statistiques de l’état civil (plusieurs années), (3) Rapports de recensement et autres publications statistiques des bureaux nationaux de statistique, (4) Eurostat : statistiques démographiques, (5) Secrétariat général de la Communauté du Pacifique : programme statistique et démographie, et (6) Bureau du recensement des États-Unis : Base de données internationale.

Remarque : Parfois, la Banque mondiale modifie ses chiffres sur les taux de fécondité pour une certaine année en raison d’informations plus précises et mises à jour provenant de sources. Pour cette raison, il est parfois nécessaire de mettre à jour les chiffres de la Banque mondiale sur les taux de fécondité plus d’une fois pour la même année.

Listes de classement des organisations gouvernementales

La liste de classement de la CIA provient du CIA World Factbook pour l’année la plus récente ^{[3] [4]} , sauf indication contraire. Les États et pays souverains sont classés. Certains pays peuvent ne pas être répertoriés car ils ne sont pas pleinement reconnus comme pays au moment de ce recensement.

L’ INED – Institut National d’Études Démographiques s’appuie sur la publication en ligne Population & Sociétés – Tous les pays du monde (2019) , numéro 569, septembre 2019. ^[5]

Listes de classement des organisations non gouvernementales

Le classement du Population Reference Bureau (PRB) est basé sur les données de la Fiche de données sur la population mondiale 2021 ^[6] publiée en ligne. Le PRB ^[7] est une organisation privée à but non lucratif qui informe les gens du monde entier sur la population, la santé et l’environnement à des fins de recherche ou académiques. Elle a été fondée en 1929. Les fiches de données sur la population mondiale sont des tableaux muraux recto-verso (maintenant publiés en ligne) qui présentent des informations détaillées sur les indicateurs démographiques, sanitaires et environnementaux pour plus de 200 pays.

Remarque : Les changements dans les chiffres des taux de fécondité par pays d’une année à l’autre ne reflètent pas toujours une augmentation ou une diminution réelle des taux de fécondité dans un certain pays, mais reflètent plutôt un changement effectué en raison d’informations plus précises et mises à jour provenant de sources.

La liste de classement des pays Our World In Data (OWID) 2019 provient et est basée sur le site Web OWID (sur la carte cliquable et les sources citées). ^{[8] [9]} (OWID) est une publication en ligne qui présente des recherches empiriques et des données qui montrent comment les conditions de vie dans le monde évoluent. L’objectif est de montrer comment le monde change et pourquoi. La publication est développée à l’ Université d’Oxford et rédigée par l’historien social et économiste du développement Max Roser .

Listes de classement de comparaison :

Le classement et la comparaison des pays Our World In Data (OWID) par TFR : 1950 et 2015 proviennent et sont basés sur le site Web de l’OWID (sur la carte cliquable et les sources citées). ^{[10] [11]} Our World In Data (OWID) est une publication en ligne qui présente des recherches empiriques et des données qui montrent comment les conditions de vie dans le monde évoluent. L’objectif est de montrer comment le monde change et pourquoi. La publication est développée à l’ Université d’Oxford et rédigée par l’historien social et économiste du développement Max Roser .

Le classement et la comparaison des pays de la Banque mondiale par TFR : 1960 et 2015 sont basés sur les données démographiques publiées en ligne sur le site Web de la Banque mondiale (sur la carte cliquable et les sources citées). ^[12]

Le classement et la comparaison des pays du Population Reference Bureau (PRB) par ISF : 1970 et 2013 sont issus et basés sur les données de la Fiche de données sur la population mondiale 2014 ^[13] publiée en ligne. ^{[14] [15]}

Listes de classement des prévisions/prédictions :

La liste de classement des Nations Unies provient des Perspectives de la population mondiale des Nations Unies. Les chiffres proviennent de la révision 2015 du rapport des Nations Unies sur les perspectives de la population mondiale, pour la période 2015-2020, en utilisant l’hypothèse moyenne. ^{[16] [17]} et de la révision 2019 du rapport des Nations Unies sur les perspectives de la population mondiale, pour la période 2020-2025, en utilisant l’hypothèse moyenne. ^[18] La liste de classement de la Division de la population des Nations Unies (qui fait partie du DESA – Département des affaires économiques et sociales ^{[19] ) est basée sur les prévisions/prédictions pour les années 2015-2020 et 2020-2025 publiées en ligne. [20] [21]}

Seuls les pays/territoires ayant une population de 100 000 habitants ou plus en 2019 sont inclus. Les classements sont basés sur les chiffres 2015-2020 et 2020-2025.

Classement des pays par année la plus récente

Classement des pays par les organisations intergouvernementales

Liste 2019 par la Banque mondiale ^[22]

Rang	Pays	Taux de fécondité en 2019 (naissances/femme)
1	Niger	6.824
2	Somalie	5.978
3	RD Congo	5.819
4	Mali	5.785
5	Tchad	5.649
6	Angola	5.442
7	Burundi	5.321
8	Nigeria	5.317
9	Gambie	5.154
dix	Burkina Faso	5.109
11	Tanzanie	4.832
12	Ouganda	4.824
13	Mozambique	4.783
14	Bénin	4.767
15	République centrafricaine	4.645
16	Guinée	4.625
17	Soudan du sud	4.619
18	Côte d’Ivoire	4.593
19	Zambie	4.559
20	Sénégal	4.556
21	Cameroun	4.506
22	Mauritanie	4.503
23	Guinée Équatoriale	4.429
24	Guinée-Bissau	4.402
25	Congo	4.374
26	îles Salomon	4.361
27	Soudan	4.347
28	Afghanistan	4.321
29	São Tomé et Príncipe	4.267
30	Aller	4.259
31	Libéria	4.247
32	Sierra Leone	4.169
33	Ethiopie	4.146
34	Comores	4.138
35	Malawi	4.127
36	Madagascar	4.026
37	Érythrée	3.997
38	Rwanda	3.990
39	Timor oriental	3.947
40	Gabon	3.922
41	Samoa	3.830
42	Ghana	3.816
43	Vanuatu	3.774
44	Yémen	3.700
45	Irak	3.597
46	Palestine ( Bande de Gaza et Cisjordanie )	3.560
47	Tadjikistan	3.556
48	Zimbabwe	3.531
49	Kiribati	3.530
50	Papouasie Nouvelle Guinée	3.520
51	Tonga	3.518
52	Pakistan	3.454
53	Kenya	3.423
54	Namibie	3.344
55	Kirghizistan	3.300
56	Egypte	3.280
57	Lesotho	3.108
58	Micronésie	3.010
59	Israël	3.010
60	Algérie	2.988
61	Eswatini ( Swaziland )	2.958
62	Kazakhstan	2.900
63	Haïti	2.887
64	Mongolie	2.867
65	Oman	2.842
66	Bostwana	2.836
67	Guatemala	2.822
68	Ouzbékistan	2.785
69	Syrie	2.771
70	Fidji	2.754
71	Turkménistan	2.740
72	Jordan	2.691
73	Bolivie	2.688
74	Djibouti	2.676
75	Laos	2.626
76	Philippines	2.526
77	Cambodge	2.478
78	Guyane	2.440
79	Panama	2.437
80	Honduras	2.427
81	Paraguay	2.405
82	Equateur	2.403
Monde	2.402
83 (1)	Îles Féroé ( Danemark )	2.400
84	Suriname	2.394
85	Maroc	2.382
86	Afrique du Sud	2.381
87	Nicaragua	2.377
88	les Seychelles	2.340
89	République dominicaine	2.323
90 (2)	Guam ( États- Unis )	2.293
91	Indonésie	2.288
92	Arabie Saoudite	2.275
93	Bélize	2.274
94	Venezuela	2.250
95	Argentine	2.247
96	Cap-Vert	2.242
97	Pérou	2.233
98	Libye	2.206
99	Inde	2.202
100	Sri Lanka	2.188
101	Tunisie	2.174
102	L’Iran	2.146
103	Myanmar ( Birmanie )	2.138
104	Mexique	2.103
Remplacement de la population	2.100
105 (3)	Groenland ( Danemark )	2.080
106	Koweit	2.077
107	Liban	2.075
108	Turquie	2.055
109	Géorgie	2.055
110 (4)	Îles Vierges américaines ( États- Unis )	2.050
111	Viêt Nam	2.050
112	Grenade	2.042
113	Le Salvador	2.021
114	Bengladesh	2.011
115	Antigua-et-Barbuda	1.987
116	Malaisie	1.983
117	Kosovo	1.970
118	Jamaïque	1.965
119	Bahreïn	1.964
120	Uruguay	1.963
121	Bhoutan	1.954
122	États-Unis	1.948
123 (5)	Nouvelle-Calédonie ( France )	1.940
124 (6)	Polynésie française ( France )	1.927
125 (7)	Aruba ( Pays- Bas )	1.901
126	Corée du Nord	1.896
127	Népal	1.876
128	Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines	1.872
129	France	1.870
130	Qatar	1.846
131	Maldives	1.840
132	Brunéi	1.819
133 (8)	Saint-Martin ( France ) (partie française)	1,8 (?)
134	Azerbaïdjan	1.800
135	Colombie	1.789
136	Roumanie	1.760
137	Arménie	1.758
138	Islande	1.750
139	Monténégro	1.748
140	Bahamas	1.743
141	Costa Rica	1.737
142	Nouvelle-Zélande	1.720
143	Trinité-et-Tobago	1.711
144	République Tchèque	1.710
145	Irlande	1.700
146	Danemark	1.700
147	Suède	1.700
148	Chine	1.696
149	Estonie	1.660
150	Australie	1.657
151	Royaume-Uni	1.650
152	Brésil	1.630
153	Chili	1.627
154	Barbade	1.623
155	Lettonie	1.610
156	Slovénie	1.610
157	Lituanie	1.610
158	Cuba	1.598
159 (9)	Curaçao ( Pays- Bas )	1.598
160	Albanie	1.597
161 (10)	Bermudes ( Royaume- Uni )	1.590
162	Bulgarie	1.580
163	Pays-Bas	1.570
164	Belgique	1.570
165	Slovaquie	1.560
166	Allemagne	1.540
167	Norvège	1.530
168	Serbie	1.520
169	Thaïlande	1.514
170	Îles anglo-normandes – (11) Guernesey ( Royaume- Uni ) et (12) Jersey ( Royaume- Uni ) )	1.510
171	Russie	1.504
172	Hongrie	1.490
173	Macédoine du Nord	1.489
174	Suisse	1.480
175	Liechtenstein	1,58
176	Croatie	1.470
177	Canada	1.468
178	L’Autriche	1.460
179	Sainte-Lucie	1.424
180	Pologne	1.420
181	le Portugal	1.420
182	Maurice	1.400
183	Emirats Arabes Unis	1.387
184	Biélorussie	1.382
185	Japon	1.360
186	Finlande	1.350
187	Grèce	1.350
188	Luxembourg	1.340
189	Chypre	1.321
190	Italie	1.270
191	Moldavie	1.269
192	Bosnie Herzégovine	1.254
193	Espagne	1.240
194	Ukraine	1.228
195 (13)	Macao ( Chine )	1.200
196	Singapour	1.140
197	Malte	1.100
198 (14)	Hong-Kong ( Chine )	1.072
199	Corée du Sud	1.052
200 (15)	Porto Rico ( États- Unis )	1.035
Etats souverains : 185
Territoires dépendants : 15
Grandes régions
1	Afrique subsaharienne (hors revenu élevé )	4.6
2	Afrique sub-saharienne	4.6
3	monde arabe	3.2
4	Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord (hors revenu élevé )	2.9
5	Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord	2.8
6	Asie du sud	2.4
7	Amérique latine et Caraïbes	2.0
8	Amérique latine et Caraïbes (hors revenu élevé )	1.9
9	Europe et Asie centrale (hors revenu élevé )	1.9
dix	Asie de l’Est et Pacifique (hors revenu élevé )	1.9
11	Asie de l’Est et Pacifique	1.8
12	Europe et Asie centrale	1.7
13	Amérique du Nord	1.7
14	Europe centrale et pays baltes	1.6
Taille des États
1	Petits États insulaires du Pacifique	3.5
2	Autres petits États	3.0
3	Petits États	2.8
4	Petits États des Caraïbes	2.0
Organisations internationales
1	Membres de l’OCDE	1.7
2	Union européenne	1.5
État de la sécurité
1	Situations fragiles et affectées par des conflits	4.5
Zones économiques
1	Zone euro	1.5
Situation économique
1	Pays pauvres très endettés (PPTE)	4.6
2	Pays les moins avancés : classement ONU	3.9
Revenu
1	Pays à faible revenu	4.5
2	Pays à revenu intermédiaire inférieur	2.7
3	Pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire	2.5
4	Pays à revenu intermédiaire	2.3
5	Pays à revenu intermédiaire supérieur	1.9
6	Pays à revenu élevé	1.6
Non classé (pas de données ou données d’autres années)
1	Samoa américaines ( États- Unis )	–
2	Andorre	1.3 (2010)
3	Îles Vierges britanniques ( Royaume- Uni )	–
4	Îles Caïmans ( Royaume- Uni )	–
5	Dominique	1.9 (2003)
6	Guyane française ( France )	–
7	Gibraltar ( Royaume- Uni )	–
8	Guadeloupe ( France )	–
9	Île de Man ( Royaume- Uni )	1.6 (2002)
dix	Iles Marshall	4.0 (2011)
11	Mayotte ( France )	–
12	Monaco	–
13	Nauru	–
14	Îles Mariannes du Nord ( États- Unis )	–
15	Palaos	2.2 (2015)
16	Saint Marin	1.3 (2012)
17	Sint Maarten ( Pays- Bas ) (partie néerlandaise)	2.0 (2011)
18	Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès	2.1 (2002)
19	îles Turques-et-Caïques	–
20	Tuvalu	–
21	Cité du Vatican	–
22	Sahara occidental	–

Remarque : (-) Données non disponibles, inapplicables, non collectées, ou pays ou territoire dépendant non inclus. États souverains et territoires dépendants classés par ordre alphabétique, non classés.

Classement des pays par les organisations gouvernementales

Liste 2019 par l’ INED (Institut National d’Études Démographiques) ^[5]

Rang	Pays	Taux de fécondité en 2019 (naissances/femme)
1	Niger	6.8
2	Somalie	6.0
3	RD Congo	5.8
4	Mali	5.8
5	Tchad	5.6
6	Angola	5.4
7	Burundi	5.3
8	Nigeria	5.3
9	Gambie	5.2
dix	Burkina Faso	5.1
11	Bénin	4.8
12	Mozambique	4.8
13	Tanzanie	4.8
14	Ouganda	4.8
15	République centrafricaine	4.6
16	Côte d’Ivoire	4.6
17	Guinée	4.6
18	Sénégal	4.6
19	Soudan du sud	4.6
20	Zambie	4.6
21	Cameroun	4.5
22	Mauritanie	4.5
23	Congo	4.4
24	Guinée Équatoriale	4.4
25	Guinée-Bissau	4.4
26	Afghanistan	4.3
27	São Tomé et Príncipe	4.3
28	Soudan	4.3
29	Aller	4.3
30	Libéria	4.2
31	Sierra Leone	4.2
32	Comores	4.1
33	Ethiopie	4.1
34	Malawi	4.1
35	Iles Marshall	4.1
36	Érythrée	4.0
37	Madagascar	4.0
38	Rwanda	4.0
39	Gabon	3.9
40	îles Salomon	3.9
41	Timor oriental	3.9
42	Ghana	3.8
43	Samoa	3.8
44	Vanuatu	3.7
45	Yémen	3.7
46	Irak	3.6
47 (1)	Mayotte ( France )	3.6
48	Palestine ( Bande de Gaza et Cisjordanie )	3.6
49	Tadjikistan	3.6
50	Kiribati	3.5
51	Pakistan	3.5
52	Papouasie Nouvelle Guinée	3.5
53	Tonga	3.5
54	Zimbabwe	3.5
55	Kenya	3.4
56	Egypte	3.3
57 (2)	Guyane française ( France )	3.3
58	Namibie	3.3
59	Lesotho	3.1
60	Algérie	3.0
61	Israël	3.0
62	Kirghizistan	3.0
63	Micronésie	3.0
64	Eswatini ( Swaziland )	3.0
65	Haïti	2.9
66	Mongolie	2.9
67	Bostwana	2.8
68	Fidji	2.8
69	Guatemala	2.8
70	Oman	2.8
71	Syrie	2.8
72	Bolivie	2.7
73	Djibouti	2.7
74	Jordan	2.7
75	Kazakhstan	2.7
76	Turkménistan	2.7
77	Laos	2.6
78	Cambodge	2.5
79	Philippines	2.5
80	Equateur	2.4
81	Guyane	2.4
82	Honduras	2.4
83	Maroc	2.4
84	Nicaragua	2.4
85	Panama	2.4
86	Paraguay	2.4
87	les Seychelles	2.4
88	Afrique du Sud	2.4
89	Suriname	2.4
90	Ouzbékistan	2.4
91	Sahara occidental	2.4
Monde	2.4
92	Bélize	2.3
93	République dominicaine	2.3
94 (3)	Guam ( États- Unis )	2.3
95	Indonésie	2.3
96	Arabie Saoudite	2.3
97	Venezuela	2.3
98	Argentine	2.2
99	Cap-Vert	2.2
100	Inde	2.2
101	Libye	2.2
102	Pérou	2.2
103 (4)	La Réunion ( France )	2.2
104	Sri Lanka	2.2
105	Tunisie	2.2
106	Azerbaïdjan	2.1
107	Géorgie	2.1
108 (5)	Guadeloupe ( France )	2.1
109	L’Iran	2.1
110	Koweit	2.1
111	Liban	2.1
112	Mexique	2.1
113	Myanmar ( Birmanie )	2.1
114	Turquie	2.1
115	Viêt Nam	2.1
Remplacement de la population	2.1
116	Antigua-et-Barbuda	2.0
117	Bahreïn	2.0
118	Bengladesh	2.0
119	Bhoutan	2.0
120	Le Salvador	2.0
121	Grenade	2.0
122	Jamaïque	2.0
123	Malaisie	2.0
124	Uruguay	2.0
125 (6)	Îles Vierges américaines ( États- Unis )	2.0
126 (7)	Aruba ( Pays- Bas )	1.9
127 (8)	Polynésie française ( France )	1.9
128	Corée du Nord	1.9
129 (9)	Martinique ( France )	1.9
130	Monaco	1.9
131	Népal	1.9
132 (10)	Nouvelle-Calédonie ( France )	1.9
133	Nouvelle-Zélande	1.9
134	Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines	1.9
135	Arménie	1.8
136	Australie	1.8
137	Brunéi	1.8
138	Colombie	1.8
139	Danemark	1.8
140	Dominique	1.8
141	France ( France métropolitaine )	1.8
142	Irlande	1.8
143	Maldives	1.8
144	Qatar	1.8
145	Russie	1.8
146	Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès	1.8
147	Suède	1.8
148	États-Unis	1.8
149	Bahamas	1.7
150	Biélorussie	1.7
151	Belgique	1.7
152	Chine ( continent uniquement)	1.7
153	Costa Rica	1.7
154 (11)	Curaçao ( Pays- Bas )	1.7
155	République Tchèque	1.7
156	Islande	1.7
157	Kosovo	1.7
158	Lettonie	1.7
159	Lituanie	1.7
160	Monténégro	1.7
161	Norvège	1.7
162	Trinité-et-Tobago	1.7
163	Royaume-Uni	1.7
164	Albanie	1.6
165	Barbade	1.6
166	Bulgarie	1.6
167	Chili	1.6
168	Cuba	1.6
169	Brésil	1.6
170	Estonie	1.6
171	Allemagne	1.6
172	Roumanie	1.6
173	Slovénie	1.6
174	L’Autriche	1.5
175	Canada	1.5
176	Finlande	1.5
177	Hongrie	1.5
178	Malte	1.5
179	Macédoine du Nord	1.5
180	Slovaquie	1.5
181	Suisse	1.5
182	Thaïlande	1.5
183	Croatie	1.4
184 (12)	Hong-Kong ( Chine )	1.4
185	Japon	1.4
186	Liechtenstein	1.4
187	Luxembourg	1.4
188	Maurice	1.4
189	Pays-Bas	1.4
190	Pologne	1.4
191	Sainte-Lucie	1.4
192	Serbie	1.4
193	Ukraine	1.4
194	Emirats Arabes Unis	1.4
195	Bosnie Herzégovine	1.3
196	Chypre	1.3
197	Grèce	1.3
198	Italie	1.3
199	Moldavie	1.3
200	le Portugal	1.3
201	Saint Marin	1.3
202	Espagne	1.3
203	République de Chine ( Taïwan )	1.2
204 (13)	Macao ( Chine )	1.2
205 (14)	Porto Rico ( États- Unis )	1.2
206	Singapour	1.2
207	Andorre	1.0
208	Corée du Sud	0,9
Etats souverains : 194
Territoires dépendants : 14
Monde
1	Monde	2.4
Continents
1	Afrique	4.4
2	Océanie	2.3
3	Asie	2.1
4	Amériques	1.9
5	L’Europe 	1.6
Grandes régions
1	Afrique centrale	5.4
2	Afrique de l’Ouest	5.1
3	Afrique de l’Est	4.3
4	Afrique du Nord	3.2
5	Asie centrale	2.7
6	Asie occidentale	2.6
7	Afrique du sud	2.5
8	Océanie	2.3
9	Asie du sud	2.3
dix	Caraïbes	2.2
11	Amérique centrale	2.2
12	Asie du sud est	2.2
13	Amérique du Sud	1.9
14	Asie de l’Est	1.7
15	L’Europe de l’Est	1.7
16	Amérique du Nord	1.7
17	Europe du Nord	1.7
18	Europe de l’Ouest	1.7
19	Europe du Sud	1.3
Non classé
1	Îles anglo-normandes – (1) Guernesey ( Royaume- Uni ) et (2) Jersey ( Royaume- Uni )	–
2 (3)	Île Christmas ( Australie )	–
3 (4)	Îles Cocos (Keeling) ( Australie )	–
4	Union européenne	–
5 (5)	Îles Falkland ( Royaume- Uni )	–
6 (6)	Îles Féroé ( Danemark )	–
7	Nauru	–
8	Niué	–
9 (7)	Île Norfolk ( Australie )	–
dix	Palaos	–
11 (8)	Îles Pitcairn ( Royaume- Uni )	–
12 (9)	Svalbard ( Norvège )	–
13 (10)	Tokélaou ( Nouvelle-Zélande )	–
14	Tuvalu	–
15	Cité du Vatican	–
Etats souverains : 4
Territoires dépendants : 10

Liste 2021 par le CIA World Factbook ^{[3] [4]}

Rang	Pays	Taux de fécondité en 2021 (naissances/femme)
1	Niger	6,91
2	Angola	5,90
3	RD Congo	5,70
4	Mali	5.63
5	Tchad	5.57
6	Bénin	5.47
7	Ouganda	5.45
8	Soudan du sud	5.43
9	Somalie	5.41
dix	Burundi	5.10
11	Mozambique	4,89
12	Guinée	4,89
13	Libéria	4,84
14	Afghanistan	4.72
15	Guinée-Bissau	4.72
16	Nigeria	4,67
17	Soudan	4.66
18	Zambie	4.63
19	Cameroun	4.61
20	Sierra Leone	4.58
21	Tanzanie	4.45
22	Congo	4.41
23	Burkina Faso	4.39
24	Timor oriental	4.32
25	Aller	4.28
26	République centrafricaine	4.09
27	Ethiopie	4.07
28	Guinée Équatoriale	4.02
29	Sénégal	3,97
30	Zimbabwe	3,91
31	Ghana	3.71
32	Madagascar	3,70
33	São Tomé et Príncipe	3,69
34	Érythrée	3,65
35	Côte d’Ivoire	3,60
36	Mauritanie	3,59
37	Bande de Gaza ( Palestine )	3.54
38	Pakistan	3.53
39	Malawi	3.51
40	Rwanda	3.42
41	Kenya	3.36
42	Gabon	3.36
43	Irak	3.32
44	Egypte	3.23
45	Gambie	3.13
46	Libye	3.13
47	Yémen	3.10
48	Namibie	3.03
49	Cisjordanie ( Palestine )	3.02
50	Jordan	3,00
51	Lesotho	2,95
52	îles Salomon	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)	Saint Martin (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	Saint Lucia	1.73
165 (17)	Anguilla (UK)	1.72
166	Lebanon	1.71
167 (18)	Wallis and Futuna (France)	1.71
168	Cuba	1.71
169	Maldives	1.71
170	Barbados	1.70
171	Palau	1.70
172	Trinidad and Tobago	1.70
173 (19)	Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	1.70
174	Liechtenstein	1.69
175	Bahrain	1.68
176 (20)	Jersey (UK)	1.66
177	United Arab Emirates	1.65
178	Armenia	1.65
179 (21)	Saint Barthélemy (France)	1.64
180	Luxembourg	1.62
–	European Union	1.60
181	Estonia	1.60
182	Lithuania	1.60
183	Russia	1.60
184	China	1.60
185 (22)	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)	1.60
186	Slovenia	1.59
187 (23)	Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)	1.58
188	Brazil	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)	Ashmore and Cartier Islands (Australia) (uninhabited)	–
2 (2)	Christmas Island (Australia)	–
3 (3)	Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	–
4 (4)	Coral Sea Islands (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

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2021 list by the PRB (Population Reference Bureau)^[6]

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	Czech Republic	1.7
142	Denmark	1.7
143	Iceland	1.7
144	United States	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	Brazil	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
–	European Union	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	1.8
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	1.8
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^[8]

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	China	1.64
151	Serbia	1.63
152	Brazil	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	0.84
Sovereign states: 183
Dependent territories: 3
World
1	World	2.38
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)	Saint Martin (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)	New Hebrides (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 ( North Yemen and South Yemen → 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)	Southern Rhodesia (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)	Northern Rhodesia (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)	Papua and New Guinea (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 → Republic of Upper Volta → 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 Congo (Belgian Colonial Empire, Belgian Congo → Congo-Léopoldville → Zaire → DR Congo)	5.99
97 (60)	Guinea (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa, French Guinea → Guinea	5.97
98 (61)	South West Africa ( 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)	Dahomey (French Colonial Empire, French West Africa → Dahomey → 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)	SR Macedonia ( 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)	Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 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)	Uzbek SSR ( Soviet Union → Uzbekistan)	5.08
127 (80)	French Guiana (French Colonial Empire → France)	5.08
128	Chile	5.08
129 (81)	Azerbaijan SSR ( Soviet Union → Azerbaijan)	5.07
130 (82)	Tajik SSR ( 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 → North Vietnam and South Vietnam → Vietnam)	4.96
134 (85)	Turkmen SSR ( Soviet Union → Turkmenistan)	4.89
135	Cuba	4.76
136 (86)	Montenegro ( 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)	Kazakh SSR ( Soviet Union → Kazakhstan)	4.30
143 (92)	Malta (British Empire → Malta)	4.14
144 (93)	Armenian SSR ( 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)	Kirghiz SSR ( 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)	Slovak Socialist Republic’	3.59
152	Poland	3.53
153 (100)	SR Serbia ( Yugoslavia → Serbia and Montenegro → Serbia)	3.53
154	Canada	3.47
155	Ireland	3.47
156 (101)	Moldavian SSR ( 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)	Czech Socialist Republic	2.94
167 (103)	SR Croatia ( Yugoslavia → Croatia)	2.92
168 (104)	Lithuanian SSR ( Soviet Union → Lithuania)	2.90
169 (105)	SR Slovenia ( Yugoslavia → Slovenia)	2.87
170	France	2.83
171 (106)	Russian SFSR ( Soviet Union → Russia)	2.81
172	Hungary	2.77
173 (107)	Ukrainian SSR ( Soviet Union → Ukraine)	2.72
174	Uruguay	2.69
175	Bulgaria	2.66
176 (108)	Georgian SSR ( Soviet Union → Georgia)	2.65
177	Denmark	2.58
178	Italy	2.50
179 (109)	Byelorussian SSR ( 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)	Estonian SSR ( Soviet Union → Estonia)	2.09
187	Germany ( West Germany and East Germany → Germany)	2.09
188	United Kingdom	2.08
189	Channel Islands – (111) Guernsey (UK) and (112) Jersey (UK)	2.06
190 (113)	Latvian SSR ( 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)	SAP Kosovo ( 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)	Saint Martin (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 (6)	U.S. Virgin Islands (US)	1.72
149	Lebanon	1.72
150	Cuba	1.72
151	Brazil	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)	Saint Martin (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 ( North Yemen and South Yemen → 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)	New Hebrides (British and French Condominium → Vanuatu)	7.20
24 (10)	Southern Rhodesia (British Empire, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland → Zimbabwe)	7.16
25	Philippines	7.15
26 (11)	Northern Rhodesia (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)	Turkmen SSR ( Soviet Union → Turkmenistan)	6.59
72 (34)	Tajik SSR ( 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 ( North Vietnam and South Vietnam → Vietnam)	6.35
88	Haiti	6.32
89	Republic of Upper Volta (→ Burkina Faso)	6.29
90	Benin	6.28
91 (40)	New Caledonia (French colonial Empire → France)	6.28
92 (41)	Papua and New Guinea (United Nations trust territories → Papua New Guinea	6.28
93	Chad	6.25
94	Iraq	6.25
95 (42)	Uzbek SSR ( 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 West Africa ( 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	Congo-Léopoldville (→ 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)	Azerbaijan SSR ( 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)	Kirghiz SSR ( 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)	Armenian SSR ( 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)	Kazakh SSR ( 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)	SR Macedonia ( Yugoslavia → North Macedonia)	3.84
147	Canada	3.81
148 (67)	Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 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)	Montenegro ( Yugoslavia → Montenegro)	3.60
153	Cyprus	3.50
154	Australia	3.45
155 (70)	Moldavian SSR ( Soviet Union → Moldova)	3.33
156	Portugal	3.16
157	Netherlands	3.12
158	Argentina	3.11
159 (71)	Slovak Socialist Republic	3.04
160	Poland	2.98
161 (72)	Georgian SSR ( 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)	Byelorussian SSR ( Soviet Union → Belarus)	2.67
170	Denmark	2.57
171 (74)	Lithuanian SSR ( Soviet Union → Lithuania)	2.56
172	Belgium	2.54
173 (75)	Russian SFSR ( 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 East Germany → Germany)	2.37
178 (76)	SR Slovenia ( Yugoslavia → Slovenia)	2.34
179	Romania	2.34
180	Greece	2.33
181	Bulgaria	2.31
182 (77)	SR Croatia ( Yugoslavia → Croatia)	2.29
183	Luxembourg	2.29
184 (78)	Ukrainian SSR ( Soviet Union → Ukraine)	2.24
185	Sweden	2.17
Population replacement	2.10
186 (79)	Czech Socialist Republic	2.09
187	Hungary	2.02
188	Japan	2.00
189 (80)	Estonian SSR ( Soviet Union → Estonia)	1.98
190 (81)	Latvian SSR ( 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)	SAP Kosovo ( 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)	SR Serbia ( Yugoslavia → Serbia and Montenegro → Serbia)	–
25 (19)	Seychelles (British Colonial Empire, Crown colony → Seychelles)	–
26 (20)	Saint Martin (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	1.77
140	Trinidad and Tobago	1.77
141	United Arab Emirates	1.77
142	Norway	1.76
143	Russia	1.75
144	Belgium	1.74
145 (6)	U.S. Virgin Islands (US)	1.72
146	Belarus	1.72
147	Brazil	1.72
148	Lebanon	1.70
149	Cuba	1.70
150	Albania	1.70
151	Netherlands	1.70
152	Finland	1.70
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)	Saint Martin (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:

(-) 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 ( North Yemen and South Yemen → 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)	Tajik SSR ( 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	Rhodesia (→ Zimbabwe)	6.7
51	Liberia	6.7
52	Mexico	6.7
53 (13)	Eritrea ( Ethiopia → Eritrea)	6.7
54	Bhutan	6.7
55	Republic of Upper Volta (→ 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 ( North Vietnam and South Vietnam → Vietnam)	6.5
65 (18)	Bahrain (British Empire → Bahrain)	6.5
66	Nigeria	6.5
67 (19)	South West Africa ( South Africa → Namibia)	6.5
68	Chad	6.5
69 (20)	Uzbek SSR ( Soviet Union → Uzbekistan)	6.5
70	Iran	6.4
71	Tunisia	6.4
72 (21)	Turkmen SSR ( Soviet Union → Turkmenistan)	6.3
73	Peru	6.3
74 (22)	New Hebrides (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)	Papua and New Guinea (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	Congo-Léopoldville (→ 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)	Kirghiz SSR ( 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)	Azerbaijan SSR ( 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)	Kazakh SSR ( 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)	Armenian SSR ( Soviet Union → Armenia)	3.2
150	Singapore	3.2
151	Argentina	3.1
152	Barbados	3.1
153 (50)	SR Macedonia ( 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)	Montenegro ( Yugoslavia → Montenegro)	2.7
161 (52)	Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Yugoslavia → Bosnia and Herzegovina)	2.7
162	Netherlands	2.6
163 (53)	Moldavian SSR ( Soviet Union → Moldova)	2.6
164 (54)	Georgian SSR ( 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)	Slovak Socialist Republic	2.4
171 (56)	Lithuanian SSR ( Soviet Union → Lithuania)	2.4
172 (57)	SR Serbia ( Yugoslavia → Serbia)	2.4
173	Italy	2.4
174	Greece	2.4
175 (58)	Byelorussian SSR ( Soviet Union → Belarus)	2.3
176	Poland	2.3
177	Austria	2.3
178	Belgium	2.3
179	San Marino	2.2
180 (59)	SR Slovenia ( Yugoslavia → Slovenia)	2.2
181 (60)	Macau (Portuguese Macau → China)	2.2
182 (61)	Estonian SSR ( Soviet Union → Estonia)	2.2
183	Bulgaria	2.2
184	Canada	2.2
185	Germany ( West Germany and East Germany → Germany)	2.1
186 (62)	Ukrainian SSR ( 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)	Latvian SSR ( Soviet Union → Latvia)	2.0
191	Denmark	2.0
192	Malta	2.0
193 (66)	Russian SFSR ( Soviet Union → Russia)	2.0
194	Luxembourg	2.0
195	Hungary	2.0
196 (67)	Czech Socialist Republic 1.9
197	Sweden	1.9
198 (68)	SR Croatia ( 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)	Ellice Islands (British Empire – Ellice Islands → Tuvalu)	–
5 (3)	SAP Kosovo ( 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	Belarus	1.7
159	Palau	1.7
160	Brazil	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
–	European Union	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:

(-) 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

2018 forecast/prediction by the UN Population Division

2023 forecast/prediction by the UN Population Division

Rank	Country	Fertility rate 2018(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	1.70
157	Estonia	1.66
158	Montenegro	1.66
159	Slovenia	1.65
160	Brazil	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 2023 (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)	Saint Martin (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.

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v t e Lists of countries by population statistics
Global	Current population Demographics of the world
Continents/subregions	Africa Antarctica Asia Europe North America Caribbean Oceania South America
Intercontinental	Americas Arab world Commonwealth of Nations Eurasia European Union Islands Latin America Middle East
Cities/urban areas	World cities National capitals Megacities Megalopolises
Past and future	Past and future population World population estimates 1 1000 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 1907 1925 1939 1989 2000 2005 2010 2015 Population milestones
Population density	Current density Past and future population density Current real density based on food growing capacity
Growth indicators	Population growth rate Natural increase Birth rate Mortality rate Fertility rate Past fertility rate
Other demographics	Age at first marriage Age structure Dependency ratio Divorce rate Ethnic and cultural diversity level Immigrant population Linguistic diversity Median age Net migration rate Number of households Sex ratio Urban population Urbanization
Health	Antidepressant consumption Antiviral medications for pandemic influenza HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate Infant and under-five mortality rates Maternal mortality rate Life expectancy Obesity rate Past life expectancy Percentage suffering from undernourishment Health expenditure by country by type of financing Suicide rate Total health expenditure per capita Body mass index (BMI)
Education and innovation	Bloomberg Innovation Index Education Index International Innovation Index Literacy rate Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) Student skills Tertiary education attainment Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) World Intellectual Property Indicators
Economic	Access to financial services Development aid given Official Development Assistance received Employment rate Irrigated land area Human Development Index by country inequality-adjusted planetary pressures–adjusted HDI Human Poverty Index Imports Income equality Labour force Share of income of top 1% Number of millionaires (US dollars) Number of billionaires (US dollars) Percentage living in poverty Public sector Unemployment rate
List of international rankings Lists by country

v t e Demographics by continent
Africa Antarctica Asia Europe North America Oceania South America

Demographics by continent

Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America

v t e Demographics of Africa
Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

Demographics of Africa

Sovereign states

Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
The Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

States with limited
recognition

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Somaliland

Dependencies and
other territories

Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain)
Madeira (Portugal)
Mayotte / Réunion (France)
Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)
Western Sahara

v t e Antarctica
General	Climate Colonization COVID-19 pandemic Crime Demographics Economy Expeditions Field camps Firefighting Flags Flora Gateway cities Geography Geology Glaciers Global warming History Ice shelves Mammals Military activity Mountains Other species Protected areas Religion Research stations Telecommunications Territorial claims Time Tourism Transport Treaty System Tundra Volcanoes Wildlife
Regions	Antarctic Peninsula East Antarctica ice sheet shield West Antarctica ice sheet Biogeographic realm Extreme points Floristic Kingdom Islands South Pole
Waterways	Lake CECs Lake Mercer Lake Vostok List of rivers McMurdo Sound Ross Sea Southern Ocean Weddell Sea
Famous explorers	Roald Amundsen Richard E. Byrd Douglas Mawson James Clark Ross Robert Falcon Scott Ernest Shackleton
Category Commons Index

v t e Demographics of Asia
Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Artsakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan
Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau
Category Asia portal

v t e Demographics of North America
Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

Demographics of North America

Sovereign states

Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
United States

Dependencies and
other territories

Anguilla
Aruba
Bermuda
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Curaçao
Greenland
Guadeloupe
Martinique
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Martin
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saba
Sint Eustatius
Sint Maarten
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands

v t e Demographics of South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Demographics of South America

Sovereign states

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

Dependencies and
other territories

Falkland Islands
French Guiana
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

v t e Demographics of Europe
Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Vatican City
States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Artsakh Kosovo Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria
Dependencies and other entities	Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Svalbard
Other entities	European Union

v t e Demographics of Oceania
Sovereign states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue
Dependencies and other territories	American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

Demographics of Oceania

Sovereign states

Australia
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

Associated states
of New Zealand

Cook Islands
Niue

Dependencies
and other territories

American Samoa
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Easter Island
French Polynesia
Guam
Hawaii
New Caledonia
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Pitcairn Islands
Tokelau
Wallis and Futuna

Liste des États souverains et dépendances par taux de fécondité total

Méthodologie

Classement des pays par année la plus récente

Classement des pays par les organisations intergouvernementales

Classement des pays par les organisations gouvernementales

Country ranking by nongovernmental organizations

Country ranking and comparison of TFR by year

1950 and 2015

1960 and 2015

1970 and 2014

Country ranking by TFR forecast

See also

References