Total fertility rate by country, 1960

Children per woman. Below about 2.1, a population shrinks in the long run without immigration. Values are UN estimates.

◀▶1960

#	Country / area	Total fertility rate	1950
1	Rwanda	8.28	8.15
2	Marshall Islands	8.08	7.76
3	Yemen	7.99	7.97
4	State of Palestine	7.79	7.84
5	Samoa	7.78	7.55
6	Côte d'Ivoire	7.69	7.61
7	Kenya	7.65	7.39
8	Saudi Arabia	7.63	7.58
9	Jordan	7.60	7.44
10	Dominican Republic	7.55	7.51
11	Niger	7.53	7.56
12	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	7.52	6.97
13	Syrian Arab Republic	7.51	7.62
14	Libya	7.51	7.01
15	Algeria	7.50	7.32
16	Honduras	7.46	7.47
17	Madagascar	7.34	7.43
18	Brunei Darussalam	7.32	6.98
19	Afghanistan	7.28	7.25
20	Oman	7.28	7.26
21	Cook Islands	7.27	6.79
22	Bahrain	7.26	7.29
23	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7.25	7.29
24	Somalia	7.25	7.25
25	Kuwait	7.22	7.12
26	Zimbabwe	7.19	7.04
27	Palau	7.19	7.15
28	Tunisia	7.16	6.68
29	Nicaragua	7.16	7.12
30	South Sudan	7.16	7.12
31	Solomon Islands	7.06	7.15
32	Malawi	7.04	6.82
33	Mali	7.02	6.87
34	Wallis and Futuna Islands	7.00	6.95
35	Guatemala	7.00	6.80
36	Senegal	7.00	6.79
37	Philippines	7.00	7.13
38	Burundi	7.00	6.92
39	Mayotte	6.98	6.86
40	Zambia	6.95	6.78
41	Niue	6.95	6.32
42	Peru	6.94	6.94
43	Anguilla	6.92	6.49
44	Uganda	6.91	6.66
45	Ghana	6.89	6.70
46	Morocco	6.89	6.14
47	Cabo Verde	6.88	6.50
48	Djibouti	6.85	6.82
49	Mongolia	6.82	5.50
50	Togo	6.80	6.60
51	Pakistan	6.80	6.80
52	Egypt	6.79	7.06
53	Comoros	6.79	5.69
54	Vanuatu	6.78	7.04
55	Saint Lucia	6.77	6.42
56	Mexico	6.76	6.71
57	Eswatini	6.75	6.73
58	Grenada	6.74	5.18
59	Colombia	6.74	6.41
60	Bangladesh	6.74	6.37
61	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	6.74	6.63
62	Ecuador	6.72	6.73
63	Angola	6.71	5.77
64	Costa Rica	6.71	6.32
65	Maldives	6.71	6.18
66	Bhutan	6.70	6.85
67	Greenland	6.69	5.64
68	Sudan	6.66	6.66
69	Tonga	6.65	6.70
70	El Salvador	6.62	6.30
71	Uzbekistan	6.61	5.17
72	Botswana	6.60	6.43
73	Suriname	6.59	6.21
74	Turkmenistan	6.59	5.26
75	American Samoa	6.58	6.22
76	Saint Kitts and Nevis	6.54	6.38
77	United Republic of Tanzania	6.54	6.18
78	Qatar	6.53	6.54
79	Ethiopia	6.51	6.43
80	United Arab Emirates	6.50	6.50
81	Paraguay	6.50	6.49
82	Belize	6.50	6.69
83	Eritrea	6.48	6.52
84	Kiribati	6.44	6.13
85	Malaysia	6.41	6.43
86	Western Sahara	6.41	6.01
87	Saint Martin (French part)	6.39	6.49
88	Liberia	6.39	6.00
89	Albania	6.38	6.17
90	Türkiye	6.38	6.47
91	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	6.38	6.63
92	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	6.36	6.95
93	Nigeria	6.36	6.42
94	Fiji	6.36	6.52
95	Guyana	6.33	5.83
96	Thailand	6.33	6.36
97	Timor-Leste	6.32	6.61
98	Cambodia	6.31	6.53
99	Mozambique	6.31	6.00
100	Lao People's Democratic Republic	6.29	6.25
101	Benin	6.28	5.75
102	Viet Nam	6.27	5.15
103	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	6.27	6.19
104	Gambia	6.25	6.35
105	Chad	6.25	6.06
106	Burkina Faso	6.25	5.82
107	Sao Tome and Principe	6.24	6.23
108	Tajikistan	6.24	5.61
109	Namibia	6.24	5.61
110	Dominica	6.18	5.24
111	Haiti	6.18	6.25
112	Sierra Leone	6.17	6.09
113	Mauritania	6.15	5.79
114	Guinea	6.11	5.97
115	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.11	5.97
116	Réunion	6.11	6.96
117	South Africa	6.11	6.03
118	Congo	6.08	6.07
119	Nepal	6.07	6.06
120	Brazil	6.05	6.12
121	Papua New Guinea	6.02	5.71
122	Turks and Caicos Islands	5.99	5.94
123	Republic of Korea	5.99	6.06
124	Guam	5.97	5.21
125	Northern Mariana Islands	5.96	6.08
126	Central African Republic	5.95	5.93
127	French Polynesia	5.93	5.47
128	India	5.92	5.73
129	Guinea-Bissau	5.92	5.91
130	Myanmar	5.90	5.94
131	Mauritius	5.90	6.03
132	Azerbaijan	5.88	5.07
133	Lebanon	5.88	5.81
134	Panama	5.83	5.57
135	China, Taiwan Province of China	5.79	6.48
136	Lesotho	5.78	5.70
137	Guadeloupe	5.77	5.59
138	Singapore	5.77	6.23
139	Tokelau	5.73	5.12
140	Cameroon	5.72	5.73
141	Martinique	5.67	5.50
142	Equatorial Guinea	5.65	5.68
143	Jamaica	5.54	3.92
144	Indonesia	5.51	5.11
145	New Caledonia	5.44	5.13
146	Trinidad and Tobago	5.40	5.18
147	Sri Lanka	5.35	5.46
148	Nauru	5.34	4.60
149	Kyrgyzstan	5.31	4.63
150	Seychelles	5.31	4.81
151	Iraq	5.30	6.20
152	Saint Helena	5.29	5.62
153	French Guiana	5.22	4.91
154	Tuvalu	5.15	5.42
155	United States Virgin Islands	5.15	4.96
156	Curaçao	5.13	4.98
157	Bahamas	5.09	4.52
158	China, Hong Kong SAR	5.08	4.26
159	China, Macao SAR	4.96	5.55
160	British Virgin Islands	4.81	5.05
161	Armenia	4.79	4.90
162	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	4.77	5.26
163	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	4.76	5.71
164	Cayman Islands	4.71	4.38
165	Barbados	4.71	4.47
166	Chile	4.70	4.84
167	Antigua and Barbuda	4.60	5.12
168	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	4.60	3.86
169	Puerto Rico	4.59	5.21
170	Aruba	4.57	5.83
171	Montserrat	4.55	4.82
172	Kazakhstan	4.49	4.56
173	China	4.45	5.81
174	Gabon	4.42	3.95
175	Israel	4.37	4.57
176	Iceland	4.26	3.85
177	New Zealand	4.24	3.55
178	Cuba	4.13	4.03
179	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.96	5.07
180	Faroe Islands	3.85	3.85
181	North Macedonia	3.83	5.14
182	Canada	3.82	3.37
183	Ireland	3.76	3.50
184	United States of America	3.73	3.09
185	Bermuda	3.63	3.62
186	Malta	3.63	4.23
187	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	3.57	4.99
188	Montenegro	3.53	4.36
189	Australia	3.45	3.06
190	Cyprus	3.39	3.87
191	Republic of Moldova	3.31	3.49
192	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	3.23	2.56
193	Portugal	3.16	3.16
194	Argentina	3.14	3.16
195	Netherlands	3.12	3.10
196	Gibraltar	3.10	2.68
197	Slovakia	3.02	3.61
198	Poland	3.00	3.65
199	Georgia	2.94	2.98
200	Norway	2.85	2.52
201	Uruguay	2.83	2.69
202	Spain	2.81	2.47
203	Monaco	2.81	3.06
204	Saint Barthélemy	2.80	3.22
205	Liechtenstein	2.78	2.71
206	Belarus	2.76	2.64
207	France	2.74	2.96
208	Finland	2.72	3.15
209	United Kingdom	2.70	2.22
210	Austria	2.69	2.09
211	Isle of Man	2.68	2.41
212	Russian Federation	2.63	2.93
213	Lithuania	2.62	2.71
214	Denmark	2.56	2.57
215	Andorra	2.54	2.11
216	Belgium	2.53	2.35
217	Switzerland	2.44	2.40
218	San Marino	2.43	2.82
219	Jersey	2.41	2.18
220	Italy	2.38	2.52
221	Germany	2.38	2.19
222	Romania	2.32	3.08
223	Bulgaria	2.31	2.48
224	Greece	2.29	2.57
225	Ukraine	2.28	2.45
226	Luxembourg	2.28	1.96
227	Guernsey	2.24	2.33
228	Croatia	2.24	2.93
229	Slovenia	2.19	2.99
230	Sweden	2.17	2.29
231	Serbia	2.16	2.93
232	Czechia	2.09	2.82
233	Hungary	2.02	2.61
234	Estonia	1.98	2.27
235	Japan	1.98	3.62
236	Latvia	1.94	2.08
237	Holy See	1.00	1.00

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024. Includes small territories.