Rankings
Birth rate by country — world rankings
Ranking 169 countries with data.
Birth rate
| Rank | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central African Rep. | 46.2‰ (2024) |
| 2 | Chad | 43.3‰ (2024) |
| 3 | Somalia | 42.3‰ (2024) |
| 4 | Niger | 41.4‰ (2024) |
| 5 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 40.9‰ (2024) |
| 6 | Mali | 39.5‰ (2024) |
| 7 | Angola | 37.2‰ (2024) |
| 8 | Mozambique | 37.0‰ (2024) |
| 9 | Afghanistan | 35.0‰ (2024) |
| 10 | Tanzania | 34.8‰ (2024) |
| 11 | Uganda | 34.4‰ (2024) |
| 12 | Yemen | 34.4‰ (2024) |
| 13 | Mauritania | 34.0‰ (2024) |
| 14 | Benin | 33.4‰ (2024) |
| 15 | Cameroon | 33.3‰ (2024) |
| 16 | Guinea | 33.3‰ (2024) |
| 17 | Burundi | 33.2‰ (2024) |
| 18 | Sudan | 33.0‰ (2024) |
| 19 | Zambia | 32.7‰ (2024) |
| 20 | Nigeria | 32.5‰ (2024) |
| 21 | Togo | 32.1‰ (2024) |
| 22 | Madagascar | 31.7‰ (2024) |
| 23 | Côte d'Ivoire | 31.6‰ (2024) |
| 24 | Ethiopia | 31.5‰ (2024) |
| 25 | Burkina Faso | 31.3‰ (2024) |
| 26 | Malawi | 31.1‰ (2024) |
| 27 | Liberia | 30.6‰ (2024) |
| 28 | Congo | 30.4‰ (2024) |
| 29 | Sierra Leone | 30.1‰ (2024) |
| 30 | Eq. Guinea | 30.0‰ (2024) |
| 31 | Zimbabwe | 29.9‰ (2024) |
| 32 | Gambia | 29.9‰ (2024) |
| 33 | Guinea-Bissau | 29.6‰ (2024) |
| 34 | S. Sudan | 29.2‰ (2024) |
| 35 | Senegal | 29.2‰ (2024) |
| 36 | Eritrea | 28.7‰ (2024) |
| 37 | Rwanda | 28.1‰ (2024) |
| 38 | Vanuatu | 27.7‰ (2024) |
| 39 | Pakistan | 27.4‰ (2024) |
| 40 | Gabon | 27.1‰ (2024) |
| 41 | Kenya | 27.0‰ (2024) |
| 42 | Solomon Is. | 26.7‰ (2024) |
| 43 | Palestine | 26.5‰ (2024) |
| 44 | Ghana | 25.9‰ (2024) |
| 45 | Namibia | 25.9‰ (2024) |
| 46 | Iraq | 25.6‰ (2024) |
| 47 | Uzbekistan | 25.6‰ (2024) |
| 48 | Tajikistan | 25.3‰ (2024) |
| 49 | Botswana | 24.4‰ (2024) |
| 50 | Papua New Guinea | 24.3‰ (2024) |
| 51 | Lesotho | 23.8‰ (2024) |
| 52 | eSwatini | 23.6‰ (2024) |
| 53 | Syria | 23.2‰ (2024) |
| 54 | Haiti | 21.9‰ (2024) |
| 55 | Timor-Leste | 21.8‰ (2024) |
| 56 | Honduras | 21.6‰ (2024) |
| 57 | Bolivia | 21.0‰ (2024) |
| 58 | Laos | 20.9‰ (2024) |
| 59 | Djibouti | 20.9‰ (2024) |
| 60 | Egypt | 20.9‰ (2024) |
| 61 | Turkmenistan | 20.9‰ (2024) |
| 62 | Guatemala | 20.6‰ (2024) |
| 63 | Jordan | 20.5‰ (2024) |
| 64 | Cambodia | 20.3‰ (2024) |
| 65 | Bangladesh | 20.0‰ (2024) |
| 66 | Guyana | 19.9‰ (2024) |
| 67 | Paraguay | 19.7‰ (2024) |
| 68 | Kazakhstan | 19.5‰ (2024) |
| 69 | Kyrgyzstan | 19.4‰ (2024) |
| 70 | Nicaragua | 19.1‰ (2024) |
| 71 | Nepal | 19.0‰ (2024) |
| 72 | Algeria | 18.8‰ (2024) |
| 73 | Israel | 18.6‰ (2024) |
| 74 | South Africa | 18.5‰ (2024) |
| 75 | Belize | 18.1‰ (2024) |
| 76 | Fiji | 17.9‰ (2024) |
| 77 | Dominican Rep. | 17.6‰ (2024) |
| 78 | Suriname | 17.2‰ (2024) |
| 79 | Mongolia | 16.9‰ (2024) |
| 80 | Oman | 16.8‰ (2024) |
| 81 | Libya | 16.5‰ (2024) |
| 82 | Saudi Arabia | 16.5‰ (2024) |
| 83 | Myanmar | 16.5‰ (2024) |
| 84 | Morocco | 16.4‰ (2024) |
| 85 | India | 16.0‰ (2024) |
| 86 | Lebanon | 16.0‰ (2024) |
| 87 | Philippines | 15.9‰ (2024) |
| 88 | Panama | 15.9‰ (2024) |
| 89 | Indonesia | 15.8‰ (2024) |
| 90 | Peru | 15.8‰ (2024) |
| 91 | El Salvador | 15.6‰ (2024) |
| 92 | Mexico | 15.5‰ (2024) |
| 93 | Venezuela | 15.2‰ (2024) |
| 94 | Ecuador | 14.8‰ (2024) |
| 95 | New Caledonia | 14.0‰ (2024) |
| 96 | Vietnam | 13.4‰ (2024) |
| 97 | Tunisia | 13.4‰ (2024) |
| 98 | Brunei | 13.3‰ (2024) |
| 99 | Colombia | 13.3‰ (2024) |
| 100 | North Korea | 12.9‰ (2024) |
| 101 | Iran | 12.6‰ (2024) |
| 102 | Bhutan | 12.5‰ (2024) |
| 103 | Malaysia | 12.4‰ (2024) |
| 104 | Brazil | 12.1‰ (2024) |
| 105 | Greenland | 12.0‰ (2024) |
| 106 | Jamaica | 11.5‰ (2024) |
| 107 | Georgia | 11.3‰ (2024) |
| 108 | Iceland | 11.2‰ (2024) |
| 109 | Montenegro | 11.2‰ (2024) |
| 110 | Armenia | 11.1‰ (2024) |
| 111 | Argentina | 11.1‰ (2024) |
| 112 | New Zealand | 11.0‰ (2024) |
| 113 | Turkey | 11.0‰ (2024) |
| 114 | Bahamas | 10.8‰ (2024) |
| 115 | Australia | 10.7‰ (2024) |
| 116 | United States | 10.6‰ (2024) |
| 117 | Moldova | 10.6‰ (2024) |
| 118 | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.5‰ (2024) |
| 119 | Cyprus | 10.5‰ (2024) |
| 120 | Albania | 10.1‰ (2024) |
| 121 | Sri Lanka | 10.1‰ (2024) |
| 122 | Kuwait | 10.0‰ (2024) |
| 123 | Azerbaijan | 10.0‰ (2024) |
| 124 | Ireland | 10.0‰ (2024) |
| 125 | Costa Rica | 10.0‰ (2024) |
| 126 | United Kingdom | 9.9‰ (2024) |
| 127 | United Arab Emirates | 9.8‰ (2024) |
| 128 | Uruguay | 9.8‰ (2024) |
| 129 | France | 9.7‰ (2024) |
| 130 | Norway | 9.7‰ (2024) |
| 131 | Qatar | 9.5‰ (2024) |
| 132 | Denmark | 9.5‰ (2024) |
| 133 | Luxembourg | 9.5‰ (2024) |
| 134 | Sweden | 9.3‰ (2024) |
| 135 | Belgium | 9.2‰ (2024) |
| 136 | Netherlands | 9.2‰ (2024) |
| 137 | Serbia | 9.2‰ (2024) |
| 138 | Canada | 8.9‰ (2024) |
| 139 | Macedonia | 8.8‰ (2024) |
| 140 | Chile | 8.7‰ (2024) |
| 141 | Switzerland | 8.7‰ (2024) |
| 142 | Cuba | 8.6‰ (2024) |
| 143 | Slovakia | 8.5‰ (2024) |
| 144 | Austria | 8.4‰ (2024) |
| 145 | Russia | 8.4‰ (2024) |
| 146 | Bulgaria | 8.3‰ (2024) |
| 147 | Croatia | 8.3‰ (2024) |
| 148 | Hungary | 8.2‰ (2024) |
| 149 | Thailand | 8.1‰ (2024) |
| 150 | Germany | 8.1‰ (2024) |
| 151 | Portugal | 7.9‰ (2024) |
| 152 | Slovenia | 7.9‰ (2024) |
| 153 | Finland | 7.8‰ (2024) |
| 154 | Bosnia and Herz. | 7.7‰ (2024) |
| 155 | Czechia | 7.7‰ (2024) |
| 156 | Romania | 7.5‰ (2024) |
| 157 | Estonia | 7.1‰ (2024) |
| 158 | Belarus | 7.0‰ (2024) |
| 159 | Latvia | 6.9‰ (2024) |
| 160 | Poland | 6.9‰ (2024) |
| 161 | China | 6.8‰ (2024) |
| 162 | Greece | 6.6‰ (2024) |
| 163 | Lithuania | 6.6‰ (2024) |
| 164 | Spain | 6.5‰ (2024) |
| 165 | Italy | 6.3‰ (2024) |
| 166 | Japan | 5.7‰ (2024) |
| 167 | Puerto Rico | 5.7‰ (2024) |
| 168 | Ukraine | 5.5‰ (2024) |
| 169 | South Korea | 4.7‰ (2024) |
Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.
Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).
The unweighted median across the 169 countries with data is 16.0‰ — shown for context, not a world average.
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Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use
Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).
Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).