Rankings
Fertility rate by country — world rankings
Ranking 169 countries with data.
Fertility rate
| Rank | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chad | 6.0 (2024) |
| 2 | Somalia | 6.0 (2024) |
| 3 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 6.0 (2024) |
| 4 | Central African Rep. | 6.0 (2024) |
| 5 | Niger | 5.9 (2024) |
| 6 | Mali | 5.5 (2024) |
| 7 | Angola | 5.0 (2024) |
| 8 | Burundi | 4.8 (2024) |
| 9 | Afghanistan | 4.8 (2024) |
| 10 | Mozambique | 4.7 (2024) |
| 11 | Mauritania | 4.6 (2024) |
| 12 | Tanzania | 4.5 (2024) |
| 13 | Yemen | 4.5 (2024) |
| 14 | Benin | 4.5 (2024) |
| 15 | Nigeria | 4.4 (2024) |
| 16 | Sudan | 4.3 (2024) |
| 17 | Cameroon | 4.3 (2024) |
| 18 | Côte d'Ivoire | 4.2 (2024) |
| 19 | Uganda | 4.2 (2024) |
| 20 | Guinea | 4.1 (2024) |
| 21 | Togo | 4.1 (2024) |
| 22 | Eq. Guinea | 4.1 (2024) |
| 23 | Burkina Faso | 4.1 (2024) |
| 24 | Congo | 4.1 (2024) |
| 25 | Zambia | 4.0 (2024) |
| 26 | Madagascar | 3.9 (2024) |
| 27 | Ethiopia | 3.9 (2024) |
| 28 | Gambia | 3.9 (2024) |
| 29 | Liberia | 3.9 (2024) |
| 30 | S. Sudan | 3.8 (2024) |
| 31 | Senegal | 3.8 (2024) |
| 32 | Guinea-Bissau | 3.8 (2024) |
| 33 | Sierra Leone | 3.7 (2024) |
| 34 | Eritrea | 3.7 (2024) |
| 35 | Zimbabwe | 3.7 (2024) |
| 36 | Rwanda | 3.6 (2024) |
| 37 | Gabon | 3.6 (2024) |
| 38 | Malawi | 3.6 (2024) |
| 39 | Vanuatu | 3.6 (2024) |
| 40 | Pakistan | 3.5 (2024) |
| 41 | Solomon Is. | 3.5 (2024) |
| 42 | Uzbekistan | 3.5 (2024) |
| 43 | Ghana | 3.3 (2024) |
| 44 | Palestine | 3.3 (2024) |
| 45 | Iraq | 3.2 (2024) |
| 46 | Namibia | 3.2 (2024) |
| 47 | Kenya | 3.2 (2024) |
| 48 | Papua New Guinea | 3.1 (2024) |
| 49 | Tajikistan | 3.0 (2024) |
| 50 | Kazakhstan | 3.0 (2024) |
| 51 | Israel | 2.9 (2024) |
| 52 | Egypt | 2.7 (2024) |
| 53 | Algeria | 2.7 (2024) |
| 54 | eSwatini | 2.7 (2024) |
| 55 | Botswana | 2.7 (2024) |
| 56 | Syria | 2.7 (2024) |
| 57 | Lesotho | 2.7 (2024) |
| 58 | Turkmenistan | 2.7 (2024) |
| 59 | Timor-Leste | 2.6 (2024) |
| 60 | Haiti | 2.6 (2024) |
| 61 | Djibouti | 2.6 (2024) |
| 62 | Jordan | 2.6 (2024) |
| 63 | Kyrgyzstan | 2.6 (2024) |
| 64 | Cambodia | 2.5 (2024) |
| 65 | Bolivia | 2.5 (2024) |
| 66 | Oman | 2.5 (2024) |
| 67 | Mongolia | 2.5 (2024) |
| 68 | Honduras | 2.5 (2024) |
| 69 | Paraguay | 2.4 (2024) |
| 70 | Laos | 2.4 (2024) |
| 71 | Guyana | 2.4 (2024) |
| 72 | Saudi Arabia | 2.3 (2024) |
| 73 | Libya | 2.3 (2024) |
| 74 | Guatemala | 2.3 (2024) |
| 75 | Fiji | 2.3 (2024) |
| 76 | Suriname | 2.2 (2024) |
| 77 | Lebanon | 2.2 (2024) |
| 78 | Dominican Rep. | 2.2 (2024) |
| 79 | Morocco | 2.2 (2024) |
| 80 | Nicaragua | 2.2 (2024) |
| 81 | South Africa | 2.2 (2024) |
| 82 | Bangladesh | 2.1 (2024) |
| 83 | Indonesia | 2.1 (2024) |
| 84 | Panama | 2.1 (2024) |
| 85 | Myanmar | 2.1 (2024) |
| 86 | Venezuela | 2.1 (2024) |
| 87 | Belize | 2.0 (2024) |
| 88 | Peru | 2.0 (2024) |
| 89 | New Caledonia | 2.0 (2024) |
| 90 | India | 2.0 (2024) |
| 91 | Nepal | 2.0 (2024) |
| 92 | Sri Lanka | 2.0 (2024) |
| 93 | Vietnam | 1.9 (2024) |
| 94 | Philippines | 1.9 (2024) |
| 95 | Mexico | 1.9 (2024) |
| 96 | Tunisia | 1.8 (2024) |
| 97 | Ecuador | 1.8 (2024) |
| 98 | Georgia | 1.8 (2024) |
| 99 | Montenegro | 1.8 (2024) |
| 100 | North Korea | 1.8 (2024) |
| 101 | El Salvador | 1.8 (2024) |
| 102 | Brunei | 1.7 (2024) |
| 103 | Moldova | 1.7 (2024) |
| 104 | Bulgaria | 1.7 (2024) |
| 105 | Qatar | 1.7 (2024) |
| 106 | Greenland | 1.7 (2024) |
| 107 | Armenia | 1.7 (2024) |
| 108 | Iran | 1.7 (2024) |
| 109 | Serbia | 1.6 (2024) |
| 110 | Colombia | 1.6 (2024) |
| 111 | United States | 1.6 (2024) |
| 112 | Brazil | 1.6 (2024) |
| 113 | France | 1.6 (2024) |
| 114 | New Zealand | 1.6 (2024) |
| 115 | Iceland | 1.6 (2024) |
| 116 | Kuwait | 1.6 (2024) |
| 117 | United Kingdom | 1.6 (2024) |
| 118 | Malaysia | 1.5 (2024) |
| 119 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1.5 (2024) |
| 120 | Slovenia | 1.5 (2024) |
| 121 | Argentina | 1.5 (2024) |
| 122 | Bosnia and Herz. | 1.5 (2024) |
| 123 | Australia | 1.5 (2024) |
| 124 | Turkey | 1.5 (2024) |
| 125 | Denmark | 1.5 (2024) |
| 126 | Ireland | 1.5 (2024) |
| 127 | Croatia | 1.5 (2024) |
| 128 | Slovakia | 1.5 (2024) |
| 129 | Norway | 1.5 (2024) |
| 130 | Bhutan | 1.4 (2024) |
| 131 | Cuba | 1.4 (2024) |
| 132 | Belgium | 1.4 (2024) |
| 133 | Azerbaijan | 1.4 (2024) |
| 134 | Netherlands | 1.4 (2024) |
| 135 | Sweden | 1.4 (2024) |
| 136 | Russia | 1.4 (2024) |
| 137 | Hungary | 1.4 (2024) |
| 138 | Portugal | 1.4 (2024) |
| 139 | Macedonia | 1.4 (2024) |
| 140 | Uruguay | 1.4 (2024) |
| 141 | Romania | 1.4 (2024) |
| 142 | Cyprus | 1.4 (2024) |
| 143 | Bahamas | 1.4 (2024) |
| 144 | Czechia | 1.4 (2024) |
| 145 | Germany | 1.4 (2024) |
| 146 | Jamaica | 1.4 (2024) |
| 147 | Albania | 1.3 (2024) |
| 148 | Costa Rica | 1.3 (2024) |
| 149 | Austria | 1.3 (2024) |
| 150 | Switzerland | 1.3 (2024) |
| 151 | Canada | 1.3 (2024) |
| 152 | Finland | 1.3 (2024) |
| 153 | Luxembourg | 1.3 (2024) |
| 154 | Greece | 1.2 (2024) |
| 155 | Latvia | 1.2 (2024) |
| 156 | Belarus | 1.2 (2024) |
| 157 | United Arab Emirates | 1.2 (2024) |
| 158 | Thailand | 1.2 (2024) |
| 159 | Estonia | 1.2 (2024) |
| 160 | Italy | 1.2 (2024) |
| 161 | Japan | 1.2 (2024) |
| 162 | Chile | 1.1 (2024) |
| 163 | Poland | 1.1 (2024) |
| 164 | Lithuania | 1.1 (2024) |
| 165 | Spain | 1.1 (2024) |
| 166 | China | 1.0 (2024) |
| 167 | Ukraine | 1.0 (2024) |
| 168 | Puerto Rico | 0.9 (2024) |
| 169 | South Korea | 0.7 (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 2.1 — 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).