Countries by fertility rate

Name: Countries by fertility rate, 2021
Creator: World Bank
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Somalia had the highest fertility rate of 215 countries in 2021, at 6.35 children per woman. Macao had the lowest, at 0.76 children per woman. The median was 2.01 children per woman and the figure for the World was 2.25 children per woman. Source: the World Bank.

Highest6.35Somalia

Lowest0.76Macao

Median2.01215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2021

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2021 children per woman	Change on 2020
1	Somalia	6.35	-0.1
2	Chad	6.26	-0.09
3	Niger	6.2	-0.17
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.16	-0.05
5	Central African Republic	6.05	-0.01
6	Mali	5.78	-0.07
7	Angola	5.3	-0.07
8	Burundi	5.08	-0.1
9	Afghanistan	5.04	-0.11
10	Mozambique	4.91	-0.05
11	Mauritania	4.85	-0.06
12	Tanzania	4.73	-0.07
13	Benin	4.71	-0.09
14	Nigeria	4.64	-0.06
15	Yemen	4.6	-0
16	Uganda	4.51	-0.11
17	Cameroon	4.47	-0.09
18	Sudan	4.46	-0.08
19	Côte d’Ivoire	4.41	-0.05
20	Guinea	4.4	-0.09
21	Burkina Faso	4.36	-0.08
22	Togo	4.32	-0.06
23	Republic of the Congo	4.28	-0.05
24	Equatorial Guinea	4.27	-0.08
25	Zambia	4.25	-0.08
26	Ethiopia	4.18	-0.1
27	Gambia	4.17	-0.08
28	Madagascar	4.1	-0.07
29	Liberia	4.09	-0.08
30	South Sudan	4.05	-0.11
31	Comoros	4	-0.07
32	Guinea-Bissau	4	-0.08
33	Sierra Leone	3.98	-0.1
34	Samoa	3.94	-0.06
35	Senegal	3.94	-0.07
36	Eritrea	3.87	-0.07
37	Rwanda	3.84	-0.07
38	Malawi	3.79	-0.09
39	Gabon	3.78	-0.06
40	Zimbabwe	3.77	+0.01
41	São Tomé and Príncipe	3.76	-0.07
42	Pakistan	3.72	-0.04
43	Vanuatu	3.7	-0.04
44	Solomon Islands	3.69	-0.06
45	Ghana	3.49	-0.05
46	Palestine	3.44	-0.07
47	Nauru	3.43	-0.04
48	Iraq	3.36	-0.06
49	Kazakhstan	3.32	+0.19
50	Kenya	3.31	-0.05
51	Namibia	3.3	-0.05
52	Tuvalu	3.28	-0.03
53	Uzbekistan	3.27	+0.21
54	Kiribati	3.22	-0.04
55	Papua New Guinea	3.22	-0.06
56	Tonga	3.2	-0.04
57	Tajikistan	3.17	-0.04
58	Israel	3	+0.1
59	Marshall Islands	2.96	-0.02
60	Timor-Leste	2.89	-0.12
61	Kyrgyzstan	2.89	-0.21
62	Algeria	2.87	-0.07
63	Guam	2.86	-0.04
64	Eswatini	2.84	-0.05
65	Botswana	2.83	-0.03
66	Micronesia	2.82	-0.03
67	Saint Martin	2.8	-0.03
68	Mongolia	2.8	-0.1
69	Syria	2.8	-0.04
70	Lesotho	2.77	-0.08
71	Turkmenistan	2.75	-0.04
72	Egypt	2.75	-0.1
73	Haiti	2.75	-0.06
74	Jordan	2.74	-0.06
75	Djibouti	2.7	-0.05
76	Cambodia	2.66	-0.03
77	Bolivia	2.62	-0.03
78	Oman	2.59	-0.05
79	Honduras	2.55	-0.03
80	Laos	2.49	-0.04
81	Paraguay	2.47	-0.03
82	Guyana	2.46	-0.03
82	Libya	2.46	-0.04
84	Northern Mariana Islands	2.44	-0.05
85	Guatemala	2.39	-0.08
86	Seychelles	2.38	+0.18
87	Fiji	2.33	-0.03
88	American Samoa	2.33	-0.03
89	Faroe Islands	2.31	-0.02
90	Suriname	2.3	-0.02
91	Dominican Republic	2.29	-0.04
92	Morocco	2.29	-0.03
93	Lebanon	2.28	-0.02
94	Nicaragua	2.27	-0.03
95	South Africa	2.25	-0.01
96	Bangladesh	2.17	-0
97	Saudi Arabia	2.17	-0.1
98	Indonesia	2.17	-0.02
99	Myanmar	2.16	-0.02
100	Panama	2.15	-0.03
101	Kuwait	2.15	+0.12
102	Monaco	2.12	-0.26
103	Venezuela	2.11	-0.01
104	Peru	2.03	-0.03
105	Nepal	2.03	-0.03
106	India	2.01	-0.03
107	New Caledonia	2.01	-0.01
108	U.S. Virgin Islands	2.01	-0.02
109	Sri Lanka	2	-0.01
110	Georgia	1.98	0
111	Mexico	1.97	-0.02
112	Palau	1.95	-0.02
112	Philippines	1.95	-0.13
114	Vietnam	1.94	-0.02
115	Ecuador	1.91	-0.06
116	Gibraltar	1.9	-0.01
117	Bahrain	1.85	-0.01
118	Belize	1.84	-0.2
119	Czechia	1.83	+0.09
119	France	1.83	+0.01
121	Greenland	1.82	-0.29
121	Iceland	1.82	+0.1
123	Romania	1.81	+0.01
124	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.81	-0.02
125	North Korea	1.81	-0.01
126	El Salvador	1.8	-0.02
127	Bulgaria	1.8	+0.03
127	Tunisia	1.8	-0.2
129	Brunei	1.78	-0.02
130	Moldova	1.75	-0.02
131	Montenegro	1.75	0
132	Denmark	1.72	+0.04
132	Ireland	1.72	+0.12
134	Türkiye	1.71	-0.06
135	Barbados	1.71	0
135	Iran	1.71	+0.01
137	Armenia	1.7	0
137	Australia	1.7	+0.12
139	Colombia	1.68	-0.01
140	Sweden	1.67	0
141	United States	1.66	+0.02
142	New Zealand	1.65	+0.03
143	Slovenia	1.64	+0.05
144	Brazil	1.64	-0.02
145	Aruba	1.63	-0.03
146	Hungary	1.63	+0.02
146	Slovakia	1.63	+0.04
148	Croatia	1.62	+0.14
148	Netherlands	1.62	+0.08
150	Estonia	1.61	+0.03
151	Qatar	1.61	-0.07
152	Belgium	1.6	+0.05
152	North Macedonia	1.6	+0.29
154	Maldives	1.6	-0.01
155	Argentina	1.59	-0.02
156	United Kingdom	1.58	+0.01
157	Antigua and Barbuda	1.58	+0.01
157	Germany	1.58	+0.05
159	Latvia	1.57	+0.02
160	Isle of Man	1.57	-0.02
161	Trinidad and Tobago	1.56	-0.01
162	Malaysia	1.56	-0.13
163	Cape Verde	1.55	-0.04
164	Cayman Islands	1.55	-0
165	Norway	1.55	+0.07
166	French Polynesia	1.53	-0.04
167	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.53	-0.02
168	Liechtenstein	1.53	+0.07
169	Azerbaijan	1.52	-0.18
169	Serbia	1.52	+0.04
169	Switzerland	1.52	+0.06
172	Grenada	1.52	-0.02
173	Russia	1.51	0
174	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.5	-0.05
175	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.49	-0.02
176	Bhutan	1.49	-0.01
177	Dominica	1.48	-0.01
178	Austria	1.48	+0.04
179	Finland	1.46	+0.09
180	Sint Maarten	1.46	-0.01
181	Uruguay	1.45	-0.05
182	Canada	1.44	+0.03
183	Greece	1.43	+0.04
184	Cuba	1.43	-0.06
185	Mauritius	1.42	-0.04
186	Curaçao	1.4	0
187	Saint Lucia	1.4	-0.01
188	Cyprus	1.39	+0.03
189	Bermuda	1.39	-0.06
190	Bahamas	1.38	-0
191	Luxembourg	1.38	+0.02
192	Jamaica	1.38	-0.01
193	Belarus	1.37	0
194	Albania	1.37	-0.01
195	Lithuania	1.36	0
196	Costa Rica	1.35	-0.09
197	Portugal	1.35	-0.07
198	Poland	1.33	-0.06
199	Japan	1.3	-0.03
200	Italy	1.25	+0.01
201	Thailand	1.23	-0.02
202	Spain	1.18	0
203	Chile	1.18	-0.13
204	United Arab Emirates	1.16	-0.13
205	Ukraine	1.15	-0.06
206	Malta	1.13	-0.01
207	San Marino	1.13	+0.01
208	Singapore	1.12	+0.02
209	China	1.12	-0.12
210	Andorra	1.06	+0.03
211	British Virgin Islands	1	+0.02
212	Puerto Rico	0.91	-0.02
213	South Korea	0.81	-0.03
214	Hong Kong	0.77	-0.11
215	Macao	0.76	-0.08

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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 6.35 children per woman in 2021, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest fertility rate?

Macao, with 0.76 children per woman in 2021.

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.