List of countries by birth rate

Fertility rate by country (UN 2010–2015)

The following list of countries by birth rate sorts countries and territories according to their fertility rate and the number of births per 1000 inhabitants. The fertility rate indicates how many children a woman has on average in her life. In modern societies with low infant and child mortality , it is assumed that mathematically about 2.1 children per woman have to be born in order to keep the population at a constant level in the long term without migration .

The annual number of births per 1000 inhabitants is not only a question of the fertility rate, but also the average age of a population. If the proportion of people of childbearing age is very high, the number of births can still be high despite a relatively low fertility. Another factor is a surplus of men in the population. In the People's Republic of China z. For example, the very unfavorable gender ratio of 119 boys to 100 girls (mainly due to gender-selective abortions ) would require a fertility rate of 2.38 to maintain the population.

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The data for the fertility rate in 2016 are from the CIA World Factbook and the data for the average fertility rate between 2010 and 2015 are from the United Nations . The data for the number of births per 1000 people in 2016 comes from the CIA World Factbook and the data for the average number of births per 1000 people in the period 2010-2015 from the United Nations. CIA and United Nations data may vary slightly due to different time periods and sources. Countries are ranked according to the 2016 fertility rate. All tables are sortable.

country	Fertility rate		Births per 1000 inh.
	CIA Factbook 2016	UN 2010–2015	(CIA Factb. 2016)	(UN 2010–2015)
Niger	6.62	7.40	44.8	49.2
Burundi	6.04	6.00	41.7	43.3
Mali	5.95	6.35	44.4	44.7
Somalia	5.89	6.61	40.0	44.4
Uganda	5.80	5.91	43.4	43.9
Burkina Faso	5.79	5.65	41.6	40.8
Zambia	5.67	5.20	41.8	39.3
Malawi	5.54	4.88	41.3	38.1
Angola	5.31	5.95	38.6	43.7
Afghanistan	5.23	5.26	38.3	36.2
South Sudan	5.19	5.15	36.2	37.3
Mozambique	5.15	5.45	38.3	40.4
Nigeria	5.13	5.74	37.3	40.5
Ethiopia	5.07	4.63	36.9	33.6
East Timor	4.90	5.91	33.8	36.8
Benin	4.86	5.22	35.5	38.4
Tanzania	4.83	5.24	36.0	39.8
Guinea	4.82	5.13	35.4	37.5
Sierra Leone	4.76	4.84	36.7	37.3
Cameroon	4.70	4.95	35.8	38.2
Republic of the Congo	4.63	4.86	35.1	36.8
Liberia	4.60	4.83	33.9	35.8
Democratic Republic of Congo	4.53	6.40	34.2	44.0
Equatorial Guinea	4.48	4.99	32.8	36.0
Rwanda	4.46	4.20	33.3	33.5
Chad	4.45	6.31	36.1	45.2
Togo	4.43	4.69	33.7	35.8
Gabon	4.43	4.00	34.3	31.3
Sao Tome and Principe	4.40	4.67	33.3	35.6
Senegal	4.36	5.00	34.0	37.6
Central African Republic	4.36	5.10	34.7	37.3
Guinea-Bissau	4.16	4.90	32.9	38.4
Madagascar	4.12	4.40	32.1	34.1
Eritrea	4.07	4.40	30.1	34.3
Iraq	4.06	4.55	30.9	34.5
Ghana	4.03	4.18	30.8	32.7
Western Sahara	3.93	2.60	29.8	22.2
Mauritania	3.93	4.88	30.9	35.5
Palestine	3.86	4.25	29.4	32.9
Yemen	3.77	4.40	29.2	33.6
Sudan	3.68	4.75	28.5	34.4
Gambia	3.63	5.62	30.1	41.2
Egypt	3.53	3.38	30.3	28.5
Zimbabwe	3.50	4.00	31.9	35.6
Comoros	3.47	4.60	26.9	34.4
Ivory Coast	3.46	5.14	28.8	37.7
Namibia	3.36	3.60	27.9	30.4
Solomon Islands	3.22	4.06	25.3	30.8
Jordan	3.18	3.60	25.5	28.4
Tonga	3.18	3.79	22.6	25.7
Vanuatu	3.16	3.41	24.5	26.9
Kenya	3.14	4.10	25.1	33.1
Papua New Guinea	3.10	3.84	24.0	28.8
Marshall Islands	3.09	3.23	25.0	24.9
Philippines	3.06	3.05	24.0	24.1
Tuvalu	2.98	3.45	23.8	27.4
Belize	2.90	2.64	24.3	23.3
Nauru	2.84	3.24	24.4	25.1
Oman	2.84	2.92	24.3	21.5
Guatemala	2.83	3.19	24.5	26.6
Haiti	2.79	3.13	23.3	25.5
Samoa	2.77	4.16	20.6	26.4
Laos	2.76	2.93	23.9	25.5
Algeria	2.74	2.96	23.0	25.3
Swaziland	2.74	3.30	24.3	30.2
Honduras	2.72	2.65	22.8	23.0
Bolivia	2.68	3.04	22.4	24.4
Lesotho	2.68	3.26	25.1	28.7
Pakistan	2.68	3.72	22.3	29.7
Tajikistan	2.67	3.50	23.8	30.2
Israel	2.66	3.04	18.3	21.4
Kyrgyzstan	2.64	3.12	22.6	27.1
Cambodia	2.56	2.70	23.4	24.5
Syria	2.55	3.10	21.7	24.3
Malaysia	2.53	2.11	19.4	17.2
Micronesia	2.45	3.00	20.3	23.6
Fiji	2.44	2.60	19.0	20.7
Kuwait	2.44	2.05	19.6	18.0
Kiribati	2.43	3.79	21.3	29.2
World average	2.41	2.47	19.3	19.6
India	2.38	2.44	19.3	20.0
Djibouti	2.35	3.10	23.6	24.3
Venezuela	2.35	2.40	19.2	20.1
United Arab Emirates	2.33	1.82	15.3	10.8
Panama	2.33	2.60	18.1	20.6
Guam	2.31	2.42	16.7	17.3
South Africa	2.31	2.55	20.5	22.0
Dominican Republic	2.31	2.53	18.6	21.4
Botswana	2.30	2.88	20.7	25.1
Argentina	2.28	2.34	17.0	17.8
Kazakhstan	2.28	2.70	18.7	22.8
Cape Verde	2.26	2.50	20.2	21.8
Ecuador	2.22	2.56	18.2	21.2
Bangladesh	2.19	2.22	19.0	20.2
Nepal	2.18	2.32	19.9	20.9
Mexico	2.16	2.29	18.3	19.4
Peru	2.15	2.50	18.0	20.4
Myanmar	2.15	2.30	18.2	18.7
Indonesia	2.13	2.45	16.4	20.2
Mongolia	2.13	2.83	19.6	26.0
Morocco	2.12	2.60	18.0	21.3
Saudi Arabia	2.11	2.72	18.4	20.8
Sri Lanka	2.09	2.11	15.5	16.4
Turkmenistan	2.08	3.00	19.3	27.0
France	2.07	1.98	12.3	12.1
Dominica	2.04	2.12	15.2	15.6
Grenada	2.04	2.18	15.8	17.4
Guyana	2.04	2.60	15.5	21.1
Libya	2.04	2.40	17.8	21.3
Turkey	2.03	2.12	16.0	17.3
New Zealand	2.03	2.04	13.3	13.7
Colombia	2.02	1.93	16.3	16.2
Antigua and Barbuda	2.01	2.10	15.8	16.8
Iceland	2.01	1.98	13.8	13.8
Jamaica	1.99	2.08	18.0	17.2
Ireland	1.98	2.00	14.5	15.4
Tunisia	1.98	2.25	16.4	19.1
North Korea	1.96	1.95	14.6	14.0
Suriname	1.95	2.45	16.0	19.0
Bahamas	1.95	1.81	15.4	14.8
Bhutan	1.93	2.20	17.5	19.3
Nicaragua	1.92	2.32	17.9	21.0
Paraguay	1.91	2.60	16.5	21.7
Costa Rica	1.90	1.85	15.7	15.1
Qatar	1.90	2.00	9.7	10.9
Azerbaijan	1.90	2.10	16.2	19.2
United Kingdom	1.89	1.88	12.1	12.4
El Salvador	1.89	2.17	16.3	19.1
Sweden	1.88	1.90	12.0	12.0
United States	1.87	1.88	12.5	12.5
Norway	1.86	1.82	12.2	11.9
Seychelles	1.86	2.38	13.9	17.7
Iran	1.83	1.75	17.8	18.2
Vietnam	1.82	1.96	15.7	17.4
Chile	1.81	1.82	13.7	13.9
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	1.81	2.00	13.4	16.4
Uruguay	1.81	2.04	13.0	14.4
Montenegro	1.80	1.71	12.2	12.0
Brunei	1.79	1.90	17.2	16.7
Belgium	1.78	1.78	11.4	11.4
Netherlands	1.78	1.73	10.9	10.6
St. Kitts and Nevis	1.78	1.74	13.3	13.4
Uzbekistan	1.78	2.38	16.9	22.2
Australia	1.77	1.88	12.1	13.3
Bahrain	1.77	2.12	13.5	16.0
Brazil	1.76	1.78	14.3	15.0
Georgia	1.76	2.00	12.5	14.4
Russia	1.76	1.70	12.2	13.0
Finland	1.75	1.77	10.7	10.8
St. Lucia	1.75	1.51	13.5	12.6
Mauritius	1.75	1.49	13.1	11.1
Denmark	1.73	1.73	10.4	10.4
Maldives	1.73	2.22	16.0	19.8
Lebanon	1.73	1.72	14.4	15.0
Trinidad and Tobago	1.71	1.80	13.1	14.7
Palau	1.71	1.98	11.2	13.5
Cuba	1.71	1.71	10.8	11.2
Liechtenstein	1.69	1.73	09.7	09.8
Barbados	1.68	1.79	11.8	12.2
Armenia	1.64	1.65	13.3	14.5
Puerto Rico	1.64	1.52	10.8	11.2
Czech Republic	1.63	1.48	10.7	10.4
Luxembourg	1.61	1.55	11.4	11.2
North Macedonia	1.60	1.50	11.5	11.3
People's Republic of China	1.60	1.60	12.4	12.6
Canada	1.60	1.61	10.3	10.9
Estonia	1.60	1.59	10.3	10.8
Lithuania	1.59	1.59	10.0	10.4
Slovenia	1.58	1.58	09.9	10.5
Switzerland	1.55	1.53	10.5	10.3
Malta	1.55	1.41	10.1	09.7
Ukraine	1.54	1.49	10.5	10.8
Monaco	1.53	1.76	06.6	07.3
Latvia	1.51	1.50	09.9	10.2
Thailand	1.51	1.53	11.1	11.3
Albania	1.51	1.71	13.1	14.0
San Marino	1.50	1.53	08.6	08.6
Germany	1.49	1.43	08.5	08.5
Spain	1.49	1.33	09.4	09.4
Belarus	1.48	1.64	10.5	12.1
Slovakia	1.48	1.39	09.9	10.5
Cyprus	1.47	1.38	11.4	11.3
Austria	1.47	1.45	09.5	09.4
Bulgaria	1.46	1.51	08.8	09.4
Hungary	1.44	1.33	09.1	09.1
Japan	1.44	1.41	07.8	08.4
Serbia	1.43	1.59	09.0	10.6
Italy	1.43	1.43	08.7	08.6
Greece	1.42	1.34	08.5	09.0
Croatia	1.42	1.49	09.0	09.6
Andorra	1.39	1.46	07.8	08.3
Portugal	1.38	1.28	09.1	08.5
Poland	1.34	1.33	09.6	10.0
Romania	1.34	1.48	09.0	09.8
Moldova	1.33	1.27	10.6	10.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.28	1.31	08.8	09.1
South Korea	1.25	1.23	08.4	08.9
Hong Kong	1.19	1.20	09.1	10.5
Taiwan	1.12	1.11	08.4	08.7
Macau	0.94	1.19	08.8	11.3
Singapore	0.82	1.23	08.4	09.3
country	Fertility rate		Births per 1000 inh.
	CIA Factbook 2016	UN 2010–2015	CIA Factb. 2016	UN 2010–2015

Historical development

The following list shows the development of the fertility rate per woman in different countries over time. All data come from the UN. Countries are sorted according to the average fertility rate between 1950 and 1955. The table can be sorted.

country	Fertility rate
	1950-1955	1960-1965	1970-1975	1980-1985	1990-1995	2000-2005	2010-2015
Rwanda	8.00	8.20	8.28	8.38	6.55	5.40	4.20
Dominican Republic	7.60	7.35	5.68	4.15	3.31	2.83	2.53
Kenya	7.48	8.06	7.99	7.22	5.65	5.00	4.10
Afghanistan	7.45	7.45	7.45	7.45	7.48	7.18	5.26
Ivory Coast	7.45	7.76	7.93	7.31	6.41	5.68	5.14
Philippines	7.42	6.98	5.98	4.98	4.92	4.14	3.05
Jordan	7.38	8.00	7.79	7.05	5.00	3.85	3.60
Palestine	7.38	8.00	7.69	7.05	6.60	5.02	4.25
Yemen	7.35	7.60	7.90	8.80	8.20	5.90	4.40
Iraq	7.30	6.60	7.15	6.35	5.65	4.66	4.55
Niger	7.30	7.50	7.60	7.90	7.75	7.65	7.40
Angola	7.30	7.60	7.60	7.40	7.10	6.55	5.95
Algeria	7.28	7.65	7.57	6.32	4.12	2.38	2.96
Syria	7.23	7.54	7.54	6.77	4.80	3.80	3.10
Saudi Arabia	7.18	7.28	7.30	7.02	5.55	3.65	2.72
Ethiopia	7.17	6.90	7.10	7.42	7.09	6.13	4.63
Guatemala	7.12	6.80	6.58	6.16	5.31	4.33	3.19
Mozambique	7.00	6.90	6.80	6.40	6.10	5.80	5.45
United Arab Emirates	6.97	6.87	6.45	5.30	3.92	2.40	1.82
Mali	6.95	7.00	7.15	7.15	7.15	6.85	6.35
Peru	6.95	6.95	6.00	4.65	3.57	2.80	2.50
Iran	6.91	6.91	6.24	6.53	3.95	1.97	1.75
Uganda	6.90	7.05	7.10	7.10	7.06	6.74	5.91
Bolivia	6.89	6.61	6.15	5.51	4.70	3.82	3.04
Senegal	6.80	7.10	7.30	7.28	6.28	5.34	5.00
Colombia	6.76	6.76	4.90	3.70	2.84	2.30	1.93
Mexico	6.75	6.75	6.71	4.37	3.23	2.61	2.29
Egypt	6.75	6.65	6.00	5.49	4.12	3.15	3.38
Ecuador	6.75	6.65	5.80	4.45	3.55	2.88	2.59
Tanzania	6.74	6.80	6.75	6.55	6.05	5.66	5.24
Taiwan	6.72	5.35	3.33	2.23	1.76	1.32	1.11
Turkey	6.69	6.20	5.39	4.11	2.90	2.37	2.12
Tunisia	6.65	6.99	6.38	4.82	2.98	2.04	2.24
Sudan	6.62	6.75	6.90	6.63	6.00	5.30	4.75
Singapore	6.61	5.12	2.82	1.69	1.73	1.35	1.23
Morocco	6.61	7.10	6.40	5.40	3.70	2.68	2.60
Pakistan	6.60	6.60	6.60	6.44	5.67	4.43	3.72
Venezuela	6.46	6.66	4.94	3.96	3.25	2.72	2.40
Ghana	6.44	6.84	6.90	6.35	5.34	4.64	4.18
Bangladesh	6.36	6.80	6.91	5.98	4.06	2.94	2.22
Malaysia	6.35	6.36	4.72	3.97	3.44	2.45	2.11
Nigeria	6.35	6.35	6.61	6.76	6.37	6.05	5.74
Thailand	6.14	6.13	5.05	2.94	1.99	1.60	1.53
Brazil	6.10	6.00	4.84	3.82	2.72	2.13	1.78
South Africa	6.05	6.00	5.50	4.60	3.34	2.75	2.55
People's Republic of China	6.02	6.20	4.77	2.55	1.90	1.55	1.60
Myanmar	6.00	6.10	5.74	4.65	3.20	2.87	2.30
Democratic Republic of Congo	5.98	6.04	6.29	6.60	6.77	6.72	6.40
Nepal	5.96	5.96	5.87	5.62	4.97	3.64	2.32
India	5.90	5.89	5.41	4.68	3.83	3.14	2.44
Sri Lanka	5.80	5.20	4.00	3.19	2.38	2.26	2.11
Lebanon	5.74	5.69	4.67	3.75	2.80	2.01	1.72
South Korea	5.65	5.60	4.00	2.23	1.68	1.21	1.23
Cameroon	5.49	5.80	6.31	6.72	6.22	5.45	4.95
Indonesia	5.49	5.62	5.30	4.11	2.90	2.52	2.45
Vietnam	5.40	6.42	6.33	4.60	3.23	1.92	1.96
Uzbekistan	5.30	6.50	6.16	4.80	3.95	2.51	2.38
Azerbaijan	5.20	6.00	4.60	3.30	2.90	1.90	2.10
Chile	5.15	4.95	3.58	2.70	2.43	2.03	1.82
World average	4.96	5.03	4.46	3.60	3.02	2.63	2.47
Hong Kong	4.44	5.05	3.01	1.72	1.26	0.95	1.20
Kazakhstan	4.41	4.43	3.61	3.04	2.55	2.01	2.70
Israel	4.28	3.85	3.81	3.13	2.93	2.91	3.04
Cuba	4.15	4.68	3.60	1.85	1.65	1.59	1.71
New Zealand	3.69	3.85	2.84	1.97	2.07	1.95	2.04
Canada	3.64	3.68	1.98	1.63	1.69	1.52	1.61
Poland	3.63	2.72	2.23	2.31	1.95	1.26	1.33
North Korea	3.46	3.85	4.00	2.80	2.25	2.00	1.95
Ireland	3.42	4.06	3.82	2.76	1.90	1.96	2.00
United States	3.31	3.23	2.03	1.80	2.03	2.04	1.88
Serbia	3.22	2.51	2.36	2.32	1.96	1.71	1.59
Australia	3.18	3.27	2.54	1.91	1.86	1.77	1.88
Argentina	3.15	3.09	3.15	3.15	2.90	2.52	2.34
Portugal	3.10	3.19	2.83	2.01	1.48	1.45	1.23
Romania	3.06	2.10	2.65	2.26	1.51	1.32	1.48
Netherlands	3.05	3.17	2.10	1.51	1.59	1.74	1.73
Japan	2.96	2.03	2.13	1.76	1.48	1.30	1.41
Russia	2.85	2.55	2.03	2.04	1.54	1.30	1.70
Ukraine	2.81	2.13	2.08	2.00	1.62	1.15	1.49
France	2.75	2.83	2.30	1.87	1.71	1.88	1.98
Czech Republic	2.74	2.21	2.21	1.97	1.65	1.19	1.48
Hungary	2.69	1.81	2.04	1.81	1.74	1.30	1.33
Belarus	2.61	2.59	2.25	2.09	1.68	1.26	1.64
Norway	2.60	2.90	2.35	1.69	1.89	1.81	1.82
Denmark	2.55	2.58	1.96	1.43	1.75	1.76	1.73
Bulgaria	2.53	2.22	2.16	2.01	1.55	1.24	1.51
Spain	2.48	2.81	2.85	1.88	1.28	1.29	1.33
Greece	2.48	2.29	2.53	2.06	1.42	1.33	1.34
Italy	2.36	2.50	2.32	1.52	1.27	1.30	1.43
Belgium	2.36	2.65	2.01	1.60	1.61	1.68	1.78
Switzerland	2.31	2.60	1.87	1.54	1.54	1.41	1.53
Sweden	2.24	2.31	1.91	1.64	2.01	1.64	1.90
United Kingdom	2.18	2.81	2.01	1.78	1.78	1.66	1.88
Germany	2.13	2.47	1.71	1.46	1.30	1.35	1.43
Austria	2.10	2.78	2.04	1.60	1.48	1.38	1.45
country	1950-1955	1960-1965	1970-1975	1980-1985	1990-1995	2000-2005	2010-2015
	Fertility rate

See also

• Summarized fertility rate
• List of countries by death rate
• List of countries by median age at birth

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations. Retrieved August 8, 2017 . 
2. ^ The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 8, 2017 . 
3. ^ The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 8, 2017 . 
4. ↑ World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .