Countries by fertility rate

Name: Countries by fertility rate, 2019
Creator: World Bank
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Somalia had the highest fertility rate of 215 countries in 2019, at 6.56 children per woman. Macao had the lowest, at 0.9 children per woman. The median was 2.09 children per woman and the figure for the World was 2.35 children per woman. Source: the World Bank.

Highest6.56Somalia

Lowest0.9Macao

Median2.09215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2019

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children per woman. Source: World Bank. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2019 children per woman	Change on 2018
1	Somalia	6.56	-0.1
2	Niger	6.54	-0.17
3	Chad	6.41	-0.05
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.25	-0.05
5	Central African Republic	6.09	-0.02
6	Mali	5.89	-0.23
7	Angola	5.44	-0.08
8	Burundi	5.27	-0.11
9	Afghanistan	5.24	-0.09
10	Mozambique	5.02	-0.05
11	Mauritania	4.98	-0.06
12	Benin	4.9	-0.13
13	Tanzania	4.87	-0.07
14	Nigeria	4.86	-0.16
15	Uganda	4.74	-0.12
16	Burkina Faso	4.68	-0.24
17	Cameroon	4.65	-0.09
18	Sudan	4.62	-0.06
19	Yemen	4.6	-0
20	Guinea	4.58	-0.09
21	Côte d’Ivoire	4.52	-0.07
22	Togo	4.45	-0.06
23	Equatorial Guinea	4.43	-0.08
24	Zambia	4.42	-0.07
25	Republic of the Congo	4.38	-0.06
26	Ethiopia	4.35	-0.02
27	Gambia	4.33	-0.09
28	South Sudan	4.26	-0.11
29	Liberia	4.26	-0.08
30	Madagascar	4.22	-0.03
31	Sierra Leone	4.19	-0.1
32	Guinea-Bissau	4.15	-0.09
33	Comoros	4.14	-0.07
34	Senegal	4.1	-0.19
35	Samoa	4.06	-0.08
36	Eritrea	4	-0.06
37	Rwanda	3.99	-0.06
38	Malawi	3.95	-0.07
39	São Tomé and Príncipe	3.9	-0.08
40	Gabon	3.88	-0.02
41	Pakistan	3.81	-0.04
42	Solomon Islands	3.8	-0.13
43	Vanuatu	3.79	-0.04
44	Zimbabwe	3.75	0
45	Ghana	3.59	-0.06
46	Palestine	3.59	-0.08
47	Nauru	3.53	-0.15
48	Iraq	3.48	-0.07
49	Kenya	3.43	-0.1
50	Namibia	3.4	-0.06
51	Tuvalu	3.33	0
52	Papua New Guinea	3.32	-0.06
53	Kyrgyzstan	3.3	0
54	Kiribati	3.29	-0.03
55	Tajikistan	3.28	-0.01
56	Tonga	3.27	-0.05
57	Timor-Leste	3.12	-0.13
58	Marshall Islands	3.01	-0.03
59	Israel	3.01	-0.08
60	Mongolia	3	+0.1
61	Algeria	3	-0.02
62	Guam	2.94	-0.06
63	Eswatini	2.93	-0.05
64	Lesotho	2.92	-0.09
65	Botswana	2.91	-0.03
66	Kazakhstan	2.89	+0.04
67	Micronesia	2.88	-0.04
68	Syria	2.88	-0.05
69	Egypt	2.87	-0.15
70	Uzbekistan	2.87	+0.16
71	Haiti	2.86	-0.06
72	Jordan	2.86	-0.07
73	Turkmenistan	2.83	-0.04
74	Djibouti	2.8	-0.06
75	Saint Martin	2.79	+0.07
76	Cambodia	2.73	0
77	Oman	2.7	-0.11
78	Bolivia	2.69	-0.04
79	Honduras	2.61	-0.03
80	Guatemala	2.59	-0.15
81	Laos	2.59	-0.04
82	Northern Mariana Islands	2.56	-0.08
83	Libya	2.54	-0.04
84	Paraguay	2.53	-0.04
85	Guyana	2.52	-0.03
86	Saudi Arabia	2.49	-0.18
87	Faroe Islands	2.42	-0.08
88	American Samoa	2.4	-0.09
89	Monaco	2.4	-0.08
90	Fiji	2.39	-0.03
91	Dominican Republic	2.37	-0.03
92	Suriname	2.35	-0.03
93	Morocco	2.34	-0.01
94	Lebanon	2.33	-0.02
95	Nicaragua	2.32	-0.03
96	Seychelles	2.31	-0.03
97	Panama	2.29	-0.11
98	South Africa	2.26	-0.01
99	Philippines	2.22	-0.16
100	Myanmar	2.21	-0.02
101	Indonesia	2.21	-0.01
102	Bangladesh	2.18	-0.01
103	Belize	2.14	-0.2
104	Venezuela	2.13	-0.02
105	India	2.12	-0.06
106	Greenland	2.12	+0.09
107	Tunisia	2.1	-0.03
108	Peru	2.09	-0.03
109	Kuwait	2.08	-0.04
110	Nepal	2.08	-0.04
111	New Caledonia	2.05	+0.01
111	U.S. Virgin Islands	2.05	-0.01
113	Ecuador	2.04	-0.08
114	Sri Lanka	2.02	-0.01
115	Georgia	2.02	-0.07
116	Mexico	2.02	-0.01
117	Palau	1.98	+0.01
118	Vietnam	1.94	+0.06
119	Gibraltar	1.91	-0.01
120	Türkiye	1.89	-0.11
121	Argentina	1.88	-0.19
122	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.86	-0.04
123	France	1.86	-0.01
124	Bahrain	1.84	-0.07
125	El Salvador	1.84	-0.01
126	North Korea	1.83	-0.01
127	Brunei	1.82	-0.03
128	Azerbaijan	1.81	+0.08
129	Montenegro	1.8	0
130	Bulgaria	1.79	+0.06
131	Moldova	1.78	-0.03
132	Malaysia	1.78	-0.06
133	Romania	1.77	+0.01
134	Iran	1.77	-0.15
135	Iceland	1.74	+0.03
136	Qatar	1.73	-0.02
137	New Zealand	1.72	+0.01
138	Barbados	1.72	-0
139	Colombia	1.71	-0.01
139	Czechia	1.71	0
139	Sweden	1.71	-0.05
142	United States	1.71	-0.02
143	Brazil	1.71	-0.04
144	Aruba	1.7	-0.03
145	Denmark	1.7	-0.03
146	Cape Verde	1.7	-0.11
147	Ireland	1.69	-0.05
148	Estonia	1.66	-0.01
149	Australia	1.66	-0.08
150	Maldives	1.64	-0.07
151	United Kingdom	1.63	-0.05
152	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.62	-0.06
153	Latvia	1.61	+0.01
153	Slovenia	1.61	+0.01
155	Isle of Man	1.61	-0.03
156	Armenia	1.6	0
156	Belgium	1.6	-0.02
156	Costa Rica	1.6	-0.11
156	Curaçao	1.6	-0.1
160	Hungary	1.58	+0.01
161	Trinidad and Tobago	1.58	-0.01
162	Netherlands	1.57	-0.02
162	Slovakia	1.57	+0.03
164	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.57	-0.02
165	French Polynesia	1.57	-0.08
165	Uruguay	1.57	-0.11
167	Grenada	1.54	+0.01
168	Cuba	1.54	-0.07
168	Germany	1.54	-0.03
170	Norway	1.53	-0.03
171	Serbia	1.52	+0.03
172	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.51	0
173	Cayman Islands	1.51	+0.23
174	Dominica	1.5	-0.01
174	Russia	1.5	-0.07
176	China	1.5	-0.04
177	Sint Maarten	1.48	-0.04
178	Liechtenstein	1.48	-0.1
178	Switzerland	1.48	-0.04
180	Canada	1.47	-0.04
180	Croatia	1.47	0
182	Antigua and Barbuda	1.47	+0.1
183	Austria	1.46	-0.01
184	Bhutan	1.45	-0.07
185	Poland	1.44	-0.02
185	Portugal	1.44	+0.02
187	Chile	1.43	-0.11
187	Lithuania	1.43	-0.1
189	Saint Lucia	1.42	-0.01
190	Mauritius	1.41	-0.01
191	Bahamas	1.4	-0.01
192	Albania	1.4	-0.02
193	Jamaica	1.39	-0.01
194	Bermuda	1.38	+0.01
195	Belarus	1.38	-0.07
196	Japan	1.36	-0.06
197	Finland	1.35	-0.06
198	Greece	1.34	-0.01
198	Luxembourg	1.34	-0.04
198	North Macedonia	1.34	-0.08
201	Cyprus	1.33	+0.01
202	Thailand	1.29	-0.04
203	Italy	1.27	-0.04
204	United Arab Emirates	1.25	-0.04
205	Spain	1.23	-0.03
206	Ukraine	1.22	-0.02
207	Malta	1.14	-0.09
207	Singapore	1.14	0
209	San Marino	1.1	+0.02
210	Hong Kong	1.06	-0.02
211	Andorra	1.05	-0.01
212	Puerto Rico	0.98	-0.05
213	British Virgin Islands	0.94	+0.04
214	South Korea	0.92	-0.06
215	Macao	0.9	-0.02

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About this ranking

Average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime at current age-specific fertility rates.

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. Fertility rate, total, births per woman (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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Which country has the highest fertility rate?

Somalia, with 6.56 children per woman in 2019, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest fertility rate?

Macao, with 0.9 children per woman in 2019.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Fertility rate, total, births per woman (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN). Retrieved 2026-10-09.