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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.
Health Statistics > Fertility rate, total > births per woman (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
(top to bottom)
Date
#1
Afghanistan :
7.9 births per woman
1987 ...
#2
Niger :
7.67 births per woman
2005 ...
#3
East Timor :
7.47 births per woman
2005 ...
#4
Uganda :
7.1 births per woman
2005 ...
#5
Guinea-Bissau :
7.08 births per woman
2005 ...
#6
Burundi :
6.8 births per woman
2005 ...
#7
Liberia :
6.78 births per woman
2005 ...
#8
Mali :
6.72 births per woman
2005 ...
#9
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
6.7 births per woman
2005 ...
#10
Angola :
6.56 births per woman
2005 ...
#11
Sierra Leone :
6.48 births per woman
2005 ...
#12
Chad :
6.3 births per woman
2005 ...
#13
Somalia :
6.2 births per woman
2005 ...
#14
Burkina Faso :
5.9 births per woman
2005 ...
#15
Equatorial Guinea :
5.89 births per woman
2005 ...
#16
Yemen :
5.87 births per woman
2005 ...
#17
Malawi :
5.84 births per woman
2005 ...
#18
Rwanda :
5.8 births per woman
2005 ...
#19
Marshall Islands :
5.71 births per woman
1999 ...
#20
Guinea :
5.6 births per woman
2005 ...
#21
Benin :
5.6 births per woman
2005 ...
#22
Congo, Republic of the :
5.6 births per woman
2005 ...
#23
Mauritania :
5.59 births per woman
2005 ...
#24
Nigeria :
5.5 births per woman
2005 ...
#25
Zambia :
5.4 births per woman
2005 ...
#26
Iraq :
5.37 births per woman
1997 ...
#27
Ethiopia :
5.32 births per woman
2005 ...
#28
Mozambique :
5.3 births per woman
2005 ...
#29
Eritrea :
5.24 births per woman
2005 ...
#30
Tanzania :
5.2 births per woman
2005 ...
#31
Madagascar :
5.04 births per woman
2005 ...
#32
Togo :
5.03 births per woman
2005 ...
#33
Cameroon :
5 births per woman
2004 ...
#34
Kenya :
4.98 births per woman
2005 ...
#35
Senegal :
4.9 births per woman
2005 ...
#36
Djibouti :
4.74 births per woman
2005 ...
#37
Central African Republic :
4.73 births per woman
2005 ...
#38
Côte d'Ivoire :
4.7 births per woman
2005 ...
#39
Laos :
4.5 births per woman
2005 ...
#40
Gambia, The :
4.4 births per woman
2005 ...
#41
Guatemala :
4.33 births per woman
2005 ...
#42
Sudan :
4.15 births per woman
2005 ...
#43
Pakistan :
4.12 births per woman
2005 ...
#44
Ghana :
4.06 births per woman
2005 ...
#45
Maldives :
4 births per woman
2005 ...
#46
Solomon Islands :
4 births per woman
2005 ...
#47
Samoa :
3.98 births per woman
2004 ...
#48
Swaziland :
3.91 births per woman
2005 ...
#49
Cambodia :
3.89 births per woman
2005 ...
#50
Vanuatu :
3.87 births per woman
2005 ...
#51
Saudi Arabia :
3.83 births per woman
2005 ...
#52
Papua New Guinea :
3.8 births per woman
2005 ...
#53
Comoros :
3.76 births per woman
2005 ...
#54
São Tomé and Príncipe :
3.76 births per woman
2005 ...
#55
Haiti :
3.75 births per woman
2005 ...
#56
Gabon :
3.73 births per woman
2005 ...
#57
Paraguay :
3.67 births per woman
2005 ...
#58
Namibia :
3.66 births per woman
2005 ...
#59
Bolivia :
3.65 births per woman
2005 ...
#60
Micronesia, Federated States of :
3.65 births per woman
2005 ...
#61
Kiribati :
3.6 births per woman
2002 ...
#62
Cape Verde :
3.53 births per woman
2005 ...
#63
Tajikistan :
3.53 births per woman
2005 ...
#64
Honduras :
3.47 births per woman
2005 ...
#65
Nepal :
3.46 births per woman
2005 ...
#66
Oman :
3.44 births per woman
2005 ...
#67
Lesotho :
3.4 births per woman
2005 ...
#68
Zimbabwe :
3.34 births per woman
2005 ...
#69
Tonga :
3.31 births per woman
2005 ...
#70
Jordan :
3.29 births per woman
2005 ...
#71
Syria :
3.24 births per woman
2005 ...
#72
Philippines :
3.2 births per woman
2005 ...
#73
Egypt :
3.1 births per woman
2005 ...
#74
Nicaragua :
3.08 births per woman
2005 ...
#75
Botswana :
3.03 births per woman
2005 ...
#76
Grenada :
3 births per woman
2002 ...
#77
Bangladesh :
2.98 births per woman
2005 ...
#78
Belize :
2.97 births per woman
2005 ...
#79
Qatar :
2.89 births per woman
2005 ...
#80
Libya :
2.85 births per woman
2005 ...
#81
India :
2.84 births per woman
2005 ...
#82
Israel :
2.82 births per woman
2005 ...
#83
Fiji :
2.79 births per woman
2005 ...
#84
Guam :
2.78 births per woman
2005 ...
#85
South Africa :
2.78 births per woman
2005 ...
#86
El Salvador :
2.76 births per woman
2005 ...
#87
Malaysia :
2.74 births per woman
2005 ...
#88
Peru :
2.74 births per woman
2005 ...
#89
Dominican Republic :
2.73 births per woman
2005 ...
#90
Ecuador :
2.67 births per woman
2005 ...
#91
Venezuela :
2.65 births per woman
2005 ...
#92
Panama :
2.62 births per woman
2005 ...
#93
Turkmenistan :
2.6 births per woman
2005 ...
#94
Suriname :
2.51 births per woman
2005 ...
#95
Bhutan :
2.5 births per woman
2005 ...
#96
Algeria :
2.44 births per woman
2005 ...
#97
United Arab Emirates :
2.43 births per woman
2005 ...
#98
Kyrgyzstan :
2.41 births per woman
2005 ...
#99
Colombia :
2.4 births per woman
2005 ...
#100
Morocco :
2.4 births per woman
2005 ...
#101
Kuwait :
2.39 births per woman
2005 ...
#102
Brunei :
2.38 births per woman
2005 ...
#103
Jamaica :
2.38 births per woman
2005 ...
#104
Greenland :
2.36 births per woman
2003 ...
#105
Bahrain :
2.34 births per woman
2005 ...
#106
Azerbaijan :
2.33 births per woman
2005 ...
#107
Mongolia :
2.33 births per woman
2005 ...
#108
French Polynesia :
2.31 births per woman
2005 ...
#109
New Caledonia :
2.3 births per woman
2005 ...
#110
Brazil :
2.29 births per woman
2005 ...
#111
Argentina :
2.29 births per woman
2005 ...
#112
Indonesia :
2.27 births per woman
2005 ...
#113
Bahamas, The :
2.25 births per woman
2005 ...
#114
Lebanon :
2.25 births per woman
2005 ...
#115
Burma :
2.23 births per woman
2005 ...
#116
Uzbekistan :
2.22 births per woman
2005 ...
#117
Virgin Islands :
2.2 births per woman
2005 ...
#118
Turkey :
2.19 births per woman
2005 ...
#119
Guyana :
2.18 births per woman
2005 ...
#120
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
2.12 births per woman
2004 ...
#121
Mexico :
2.11 births per woman
2005 ...
#122
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
2.11 births per woman
2002 ...
#123
Seychelles :
2.1 births per woman
2003 ...
#124
Iran :
2.07 births per woman
2005 ...
#125
Netherlands Antilles :
2.07 births per woman
2005 ...
#126
Saint Lucia :
2.07 births per woman
2005 ...
#127
Iceland :
2.05 births per woman
2005 ...
#128
United States :
2.05 births per woman
2005