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DEFINITION:
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Niger | 7.67 births per woman | 2005 | ||
2 | Uganda | 7.1 births per woman | 2005 | ||
3 | Guinea-Bissau | 7.08 births per woman | 2005 | ||
4 | Burundi | 6.8 births per woman | 2005 | ||
5 | Liberia | 6.78 births per woman | 2005 | ||
6 | Mali | 6.72 births per woman | 2005 | ||
7 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 6.7 births per woman | 2005 | ||
8 | Angola | 6.56 births per woman | 2005 | ||
9 | Sierra Leone | 6.48 births per woman | 2005 | ||
10 | Chad | 6.3 births per woman | 2005 | ||
11 | Somalia | 6.2 births per woman | 2005 | ||
12 | Burkina Faso | 5.9 births per woman | 2005 | ||
13 | Equatorial Guinea | 5.89 births per woman | 2005 | ||
14 | Malawi | 5.84 births per woman | 2005 | ||
15 | Rwanda | 5.8 births per woman | 2005 | ||
=16 | Guinea | 5.6 births per woman | 2005 | ||
=16 | Benin | 5.6 births per woman | 2005 | ||
18 | Mauritania | 5.59 births per woman | 2005 | ||
19 | Nigeria | 5.5 births per woman | 2005 | ||
20 | Zambia | 5.4 births per woman | 2005 | ||
21 | Ethiopia | 5.32 births per woman | 2005 | ||
22 | Mozambique | 5.3 births per woman | 2005 | ||
23 | Eritrea | 5.24 births per woman | 2005 | ||
24 | Tanzania | 5.2 births per woman | 2005 | ||
25 | Madagascar | 5.04 births per woman | 2005 | ||
26 | Togo | 5.03 births per woman | 2005 | ||
27 | Cameroon | 5 births per woman | 2004 | ||
28 | Kenya | 4.98 births per woman | 2005 | ||
29 | Senegal | 4.9 births per woman | 2005 | ||
30 | Djibouti | 4.74 births per woman | 2005 | ||
31 | Central African Republic | 4.73 births per woman | 2005 | ||
32 | Cote d'Ivoire | 4.7 births per woman | 2005 | ||
33 | The Gambia | 4.4 births per woman | 2005 | ||
34 | Sudan | 4.15 births per woman | 2005 | ||
35 | Ghana | 4.06 births per woman | 2005 | ||
36 | Swaziland | 3.91 births per woman | 2005 | ||
=37 | Comoros | 3.76 births per woman | 2005 | ||
=37 | Sao Tome and Principe | 3.76 births per woman | 2005 | ||
39 | Gabon | 3.73 births per woman | 2005 | ||
40 | Namibia | 3.66 births per woman | 2005 | ||
41 | Cape Verde | 3.53 births per woman | 2005 | ||
42 | Lesotho | 3.4 births per woman | 2005 | ||
43 | Zimbabwe | 3.34 births per woman | 2005 | ||
44 | Botswana | 3.03 births per woman | 2005 | ||
45 | South Africa | 2.78 births per woman | 2005 | ||
46 | Seychelles | 2.1 births per woman | 2003 | ||
47 | Mauritius | 1.98 births per woman | 2005 |