Countries by birth rate

Name: Countries by birth rate, 2015
Creator: World Bank
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Somalia had the highest birth rate of 215 countries in 2015, at 47.17 per 1,000 inhabitants. Japan had the lowest, at 8 per 1,000 inhabitants. The median was 18.36 per 1,000 inhabitants and the figure for the World was 19.25 per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: the World Bank.

Highest47.17Somalia

Lowest8Japan

Median18.36215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2015

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per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: World Bank. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2015 per 1,000 inhabitants	Change on 2014
1	Somalia	47.17	-0.29 pts
2	Niger	46.58	-0.62 pts
3	Chad	46.51	-0.54 pts
4	Mali	44.47	-0.51 pts
5	Central African Republic	43.34	-1.31 pts
6	Democratic Republic of the Congo	43.24	-0.27 pts
7	Burundi	42.26	-0.64 pts
8	Angola	41.85	-0.66 pts
9	Mozambique	40.43	-0.37 pts
10	Burkina Faso	40.04	-0.82 pts
11	Afghanistan	39.36	-0.28 pts
12	Uganda	39.01	-0.71 pts
13	Benin	39	-0.35 pts
14	Nigeria	38.95	-0.94 pts
15	Côte d’Ivoire	38.77	-1.07 pts
16	Mauritania	37.78	-0.35 pts
17	Guinea	37.77	-0.28 pts
18	Cameroon	37.72	+0.17 pts
19	Tanzania	37.62	-0.73 pts
20	Zambia	37.34	-0.77 pts
21	Togo	36.1	-0.24 pts
22	Yemen	35.94	+0.2 pts
23	Gambia	35.75	-1.16 pts
24	Sudan	35.68	+0.19 pts
25	South Sudan	35.41	-2.78 pts
26	Malawi	35.3	-1.21 pts
27	Guinea-Bissau	35.2	-0.9 pts
28	Republic of the Congo	34.93	-0.89 pts
29	Sierra Leone	34.66	-0.96 pts
30	Equatorial Guinea	34.53	-0.75 pts
31	Senegal	34.51	-0.97 pts
32	Liberia	34.34	-0.88 pts
33	Nauru	34.22	-0.46 pts
34	Zimbabwe	33.92	-1.49 pts
35	Madagascar	33.77	-0.41 pts
36	Ethiopia	33.33	-0.08 pts
37	São Tomé and Príncipe	33.03	-1.25 pts
38	Palestine	32.87	+0.09 pts
39	Vanuatu	32.79	-0.3 pts
40	Comoros	32.78	-0.54 pts
41	Rwanda	32.1	-0.14 pts
42	Tajikistan	31.99	-0.24 pts
43	Solomon Islands	31.9	-0.66 pts
44	Iraq	31.56	-1.77 pts
45	Ghana	31.11	-0.43 pts
46	Gabon	31.09	-0.3 pts
47	Kenya	30.91	-0.63 pts
48	Pakistan	30.7	-0.61 pts
49	Namibia	30.67	-0.34 pts
50	Eritrea	30.55	-0.9 pts
51	Samoa	29.82	-0.43 pts
52	Lesotho	29.18	-0.32 pts
53	Kiribati	28.86	-0.45 pts
54	Papua New Guinea	28.38	-0.52 pts
55	Eswatini	28.31	-0.71 pts
56	Egypt	28.18	-0.21 pts
57	Turkmenistan	27.47	0 pts
58	Kyrgyzstan	27.4	-0.3 pts
59	Mongolia	27.1	-0.9 pts
60	Timor-Leste	27.06	-1 pts
61	Botswana	26.48	-0.32 pts
62	Guatemala	26.22	-0.24 pts
63	Tonga	25.83	-0.56 pts
64	Algeria	25.81	-0.25 pts
65	Haiti	25.44	-0.31 pts
66	Marshall Islands	25.16	-0.53 pts
67	Laos	24.96	-0.09 pts
68	Cambodia	24.22	-0.18 pts
69	Honduras	24.08	-0.3 pts
70	Uzbekistan	23.98	+0.14 pts
71	Bolivia	23.65	-0.39 pts
71	Jordan	23.65	-0.67 pts
73	Micronesia	23.57	-0.21 pts
74	Djibouti	23.57	-0.53 pts
75	Tuvalu	23.34	+0.36 pts
76	Philippines	22.93	-0.47 pts
77	Paraguay	22.66	+0.03 pts
78	Guyana	22.52	-0.09 pts
79	Kazakhstan	22.51	-0.5 pts
80	Nicaragua	22.45	-0.39 pts
81	Nepal	22.14	-0.25 pts
82	Libya	21.92	-0.7 pts
83	Belize	21.7	-0.27 pts
84	Israel	21.3	-0.2 pts
85	Syria	21.3	-2.49 pts
86	South Africa	21.01	-0.78 pts
87	Fiji	21	-0.29 pts
88	Oman	20.99	-0.17 pts
89	Dominican Republic	20.54	-0.31 pts
90	Bangladesh	20.25	-0.04 pts
91	Saint Martin	20.02	-0.62 pts
92	Guam	19.94	-0.29 pts
93	Panama	19.84	-0.31 pts
94	American Samoa	19.82	-0.5 pts
95	Northern Mariana Islands	19.79	-1.66 pts
96	Lebanon	19.56	+0.74 pts
97	Morocco	19.49	-0.3 pts
98	Suriname	19.48	-0.38 pts
99	Tunisia	19.42	-0.24 pts
100	Saudi Arabia	19.41	-0.42 pts
101	India	18.94	-0.15 pts
102	Iran	18.88	+0.05 pts
103	Myanmar	18.61	+0.06 pts
104	Venezuela	18.6	-0.45 pts
105	El Salvador	18.58	-0.43 pts
106	Indonesia	18.57	-0.52 pts
107	Vietnam	18.5	-0.17 pts
108	Ecuador	18.36	-0.54 pts
109	Mexico	18.23	-0.73 pts
110	Peru	17.95	-0.42 pts
111	Argentina	17.67	-0.35 pts
112	Cape Verde	17.46	-0.62 pts
113	Azerbaijan	17.2	-0.7 pts
114	Türkiye	17.1	-0.4 pts
115	Seychelles	17	0 pts
116	Maldives	16.66	-1.1 pts
117	Malaysia	16.34	-0.39 pts
118	Brunei	16.24	-0.39 pts
119	Sri Lanka	16.02	-0.5 pts
120	Georgia	16.02	-0.07 pts
121	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	15.89	-0.23 pts
122	New Caledonia	15.74	-0.3 pts
123	Bhutan	15.66	-0.77 pts
124	Kuwait	15.39	-1.32 pts
125	Bahrain	15.36	-0.27 pts
126	Moldova	15.23	-0.07 pts
127	Greenland	15.2	+0.9 pts
128	French Polynesia	15	-0.8 pts
129	Colombia	14.76	-0.49 pts
130	Costa Rica	14.7	-0.14 pts
131	Brazil	14.68	-0.1 pts
132	Uruguay	14.3	+0.07 pts
133	Armenia	13.9	-0.4 pts
133	Ireland	13.9	-0.5 pts
135	Grenada	13.86	-0.67 pts
136	Saint Kitts and Nevis	13.74	-0.22 pts
137	North Korea	13.42	+0.01 pts
138	Jamaica	13.32	-0.3 pts
139	Russia	13.3	0 pts
140	New Zealand	13.23	+0.56 pts
141	U.S. Virgin Islands	13.2	0 pts
142	Chile	13.15	-0.33 pts
143	Dominica	13.11	-0.58 pts
144	Trinidad and Tobago	13.03	-0.26 pts
145	Gibraltar	12.99	-0.13 pts
146	Australia	12.9	-0.3 pts
147	Turks and Caicos Islands	12.67	-0.24 pts
148	Bahamas	12.61	-0.9 pts
149	Antigua and Barbuda	12.59	+0.28 pts
150	Palau	12.58	-0.78 pts
151	Belarus	12.5	0 pts
151	Faroe Islands	12.5	-0.8 pts
151	Iceland	12.5	-0.9 pts
154	Albania	12.43	-0.64 pts
155	United States	12.4	-0.1 pts
156	Saint Lucia	12.31	-0.09 pts
157	Sint Maarten	12.25	-0.68 pts
158	France	12	-0.4 pts
159	China	11.99	-1.84 pts
160	Curaçao	11.9	-0.7 pts
160	United Kingdom	11.9	-0.1 pts
162	Montenegro	11.8	-0.3 pts
163	Barbados	11.8	-0.11 pts
164	Sweden	11.7	-0.2 pts
165	Aruba	11.56	-1.31 pts
166	Norway	11.3	-0.2 pts
167	Cyprus	11.24	+0.1 pts
168	Latvia	11.1	+0.2 pts
168	North Macedonia	11.1	-0.3 pts
170	United Arab Emirates	11.02	-0.45 pts
171	Macao	11	-0.8 pts
172	Cuba	10.94	+0.07 pts
173	Belgium	10.8	-0.4 pts
174	Canada	10.7	-0.2 pts
174	Luxembourg	10.7	-0.2 pts
176	Cayman Islands	10.64	-0.6 pts
177	Estonia	10.6	+0.3 pts
178	Qatar	10.6	-0.54 pts
179	Thailand	10.59	-0.36 pts
180	Monaco	10.59	-0.1 pts
181	Czechia	10.5	+0.1 pts
181	Switzerland	10.5	+0.1 pts
183	Lithuania	10.3	+0.3 pts
183	Slovakia	10.3	+0.1 pts
185	British Virgin Islands	10.23	-0.59 pts
186	Denmark	10.2	+0.1 pts
186	Romania	10.2	+0.2 pts
188	Finland	10.1	-0.4 pts
188	Mauritius	10.1	-0.5 pts
188	Netherlands	10.1	-0.3 pts
191	Slovenia	10	-0.3 pts
192	Ukraine	9.8	-0.83 pts
193	Austria	9.8	+0.2 pts
194	Isle of Man	9.77	-0.34 pts
195	Malta	9.7	+0.1 pts
195	Poland	9.7	-0.2 pts
195	Singapore	9.7	-0.1 pts
198	Bulgaria	9.4	-0.2 pts
198	Hungary	9.4	-0.1 pts
200	Serbia	9.3	0 pts
201	Andorra	9.13	+0.16 pts
202	Bermuda	9.06	+0.21 pts
203	Croatia	9	-0.4 pts
203	Germany	9	+0.2 pts
203	Puerto Rico	9	-0.7 pts
203	Spain	9	-0.2 pts
207	Liechtenstein	8.7	-1.3 pts
208	South Korea	8.6	0 pts
209	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.52	+0.12 pts
210	Greece	8.5	0 pts
211	Hong Kong	8.2	-0.4 pts
211	Portugal	8.2	+0.3 pts
211	San Marino	8.2	-0.9 pts
214	Italy	8.1	-0.2 pts
215	Japan	8	0 pts

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About this ranking

Live births per 1,000 residents during the year.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Birth rate, crude, per 1,000 people (SP.DYN.CBRT.IN). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CBRT.IN. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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Which country has the highest birth rate?

Somalia, with 47.17 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2015, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest birth rate?

Japan, with 8 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2015.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Birth rate, crude, per 1,000 people (SP.DYN.CBRT.IN). Retrieved 2026-10-09.