Total fertility rate by country, 1961

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

◀▶1961

#	Country / area	Total fertility rate	1951
1	Rwanda	8.28	8.16
2	Marshall Islands	8.12	7.76
3	Yemen	8.00	7.97
4	State of Palestine	7.79	7.84
5	Samoa	7.77	7.60
6	Kenya	7.72	7.40
7	Côte d'Ivoire	7.72	7.61
8	Jordan	7.70	7.44
9	Saudi Arabia	7.63	7.58
10	Algeria	7.56	7.31
11	Libya	7.56	7.03
12	Niger	7.51	7.56
13	Syrian Arab Republic	7.50	7.63
14	Dominican Republic	7.49	7.54
15	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	7.46	6.98
16	Honduras	7.45	7.48
17	Madagascar	7.30	7.43
18	Oman	7.29	7.25
19	Afghanistan	7.28	7.26
20	Cook Islands	7.27	6.79
21	Kuwait	7.25	7.12
22	Somalia	7.25	7.25
23	Bahrain	7.23	7.29
24	Zimbabwe	7.21	7.06
25	Brunei Darussalam	7.19	7.03
26	South Sudan	7.18	7.13
27	Palau	7.17	7.15
28	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7.16	7.30
29	Tunisia	7.16	6.74
30	Nicaragua	7.11	7.12
31	Malawi	7.07	6.84
32	Solomon Islands	7.05	7.15
33	Senegal	7.04	6.79
34	Mali	7.03	6.89
35	Wallis and Futuna Islands	7.02	6.95
36	Burundi	7.02	6.91
37	Mayotte	7.01	6.87
38	Philippines	6.99	7.12
39	Guatemala	6.98	6.84
40	Zambia	6.98	6.77
41	Morocco	6.97	6.22
42	Mongolia	6.96	5.56
43	Niue	6.94	6.41
44	Uganda	6.93	6.65
45	Cabo Verde	6.92	6.51
46	Peru	6.92	6.94
47	Ghana	6.91	6.73
48	Anguilla	6.87	6.64
49	Comoros	6.85	5.77
50	Djibouti	6.85	6.81
51	Saint Lucia	6.84	6.44
52	Togo	6.82	6.62
53	Pakistan	6.80	6.80
54	Angola	6.79	5.83
55	Maldives	6.79	6.18
56	Greenland	6.78	5.73
57	Bangladesh	6.78	6.39
58	Mexico	6.78	6.73
59	Eswatini	6.77	6.72
60	Egypt	6.76	7.07
61	Uzbekistan	6.75	5.17
62	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	6.74	6.64
63	Vanuatu	6.73	7.03
64	Colombia	6.71	6.44
65	Ecuador	6.70	6.73
66	Bhutan	6.70	6.82
67	Turkmenistan	6.69	5.25
68	Sudan	6.66	6.67
69	Costa Rica	6.65	6.39
70	El Salvador	6.64	6.32
71	Grenada	6.63	5.36
72	Tonga	6.61	6.69
73	Suriname	6.58	6.24
74	American Samoa	6.58	6.17
75	United Republic of Tanzania	6.56	6.20
76	Botswana	6.56	6.44
77	Ethiopia	6.53	6.43
78	Qatar	6.53	6.54
79	United Arab Emirates	6.49	6.50
80	Paraguay	6.49	6.49
81	Kiribati	6.48	6.17
82	Belize	6.48	6.68
83	Eritrea	6.47	6.51
84	Western Sahara	6.46	6.05
85	Liberia	6.45	6.04
86	Türkiye	6.42	6.47
87	Benin	6.40	5.78
88	Saint Martin (French part)	6.39	6.48
89	Malaysia	6.37	6.43
90	Mozambique	6.37	6.03
91	Tajikistan	6.35	5.60
92	Nigeria	6.35	6.41
93	Guyana	6.34	5.92
94	Thailand	6.32	6.38
95	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	6.31	6.95
96	Lao People's Democratic Republic	6.31	6.23
97	Cambodia	6.30	6.51
98	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	6.30	6.62
99	Namibia	6.29	5.68
100	Burkina Faso	6.29	5.87
101	Fiji	6.28	6.54
102	Albania	6.27	6.20
103	Saint Kitts and Nevis	6.27	6.46
104	Chad	6.27	6.07
105	Timor-Leste	6.27	6.59
106	Sao Tome and Principe	6.26	6.22
107	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	6.26	6.19
108	Gambia	6.23	6.35
109	Sierra Leone	6.20	6.07
110	Mauritania	6.20	5.81
111	Haiti	6.18	6.24
112	Dominica	6.16	5.37
113	Guinea	6.13	5.98
114	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.12	5.97
115	Congo	6.09	6.07
116	Nepal	6.09	6.06
117	South Africa	6.08	6.06
118	Papua New Guinea	6.07	5.74
119	Réunion	6.06	6.97
120	Brazil	6.02	6.11
121	Mauritius	5.98	6.03
122	Central African Republic	5.96	5.93
123	Guam	5.95	5.30
124	French Polynesia	5.95	5.60
125	Azerbaijan	5.94	5.10
126	India	5.94	5.77
127	Guinea-Bissau	5.93	5.91
128	Turks and Caicos Islands	5.91	6.00
129	Northern Mariana Islands	5.91	6.08
130	Myanmar	5.90	5.94
131	Lebanon	5.89	5.81
132	Panama	5.87	5.62
133	Iraq	5.80	6.40
134	Republic of Korea	5.80	6.09
135	Lesotho	5.79	5.72
136	Cameroon	5.73	5.73
137	Tokelau	5.72	5.22
138	Guadeloupe	5.67	5.64
139	China, Taiwan Province of China	5.67	6.64
140	Equatorial Guinea	5.66	5.67
141	Jamaica	5.60	4.01
142	Martinique	5.60	5.43
143	Indonesia	5.52	5.16
144	Viet Nam	5.48	4.65
145	New Caledonia	5.46	5.14
146	Singapore	5.42	6.25
147	Seychelles	5.42	4.84
148	Trinidad and Tobago	5.40	5.21
149	Nauru	5.38	4.64
150	Kyrgyzstan	5.36	4.63
151	Sri Lanka	5.24	5.46
152	Saint Helena	5.22	5.58
153	China, Hong Kong SAR	5.17	4.35
154	Bahamas	5.16	4.53
155	French Guiana	5.12	4.91
156	Tuvalu	5.09	5.41
157	Curaçao	5.04	5.01
158	United States Virgin Islands	4.80	5.14
159	Cayman Islands	4.78	4.46
160	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	4.75	5.70
161	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	4.68	5.22
162	Armenia	4.67	4.85
163	British Virgin Islands	4.67	5.13
164	China, Macao SAR	4.67	5.51
165	Chile	4.66	4.80
166	Antigua and Barbuda	4.56	5.06
167	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	4.54	3.84
168	Montserrat	4.51	4.84
169	Gabon	4.50	3.95
170	Aruba	4.42	5.76
171	Kazakhstan	4.42	4.54
172	Puerto Rico	4.41	5.06
173	New Zealand	4.31	3.60
174	Cuba	4.27	3.95
175	Israel	4.15	4.67
176	Barbados	4.15	4.52
177	Iceland	3.91	3.72
178	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.89	4.85
179	China	3.86	5.70
180	Ireland	3.78	3.55
181	Canada	3.76	3.42
182	Faroe Islands	3.76	3.85
183	United States of America	3.69	3.20
184	Cyprus	3.62	3.80
185	North Macedonia	3.62	4.97
186	Bermuda	3.59	3.57
187	Australia	3.54	3.06
188	Montenegro	3.49	4.63
189	Malta	3.30	4.21
190	Gibraltar	3.26	2.76
191	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	3.26	2.60
192	Republic of Moldova	3.23	3.52
193	Netherlands	3.21	3.06
194	Portugal	3.20	3.18
195	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	3.16	2.66
196	Argentina	3.12	3.16
197	Slovakia	2.96	3.60
198	Georgia	2.94	2.92
199	Norway	2.92	2.47
200	Poland	2.86	3.70
201	Uruguay	2.85	2.70
202	France	2.83	2.82
203	United Kingdom	2.79	2.19
204	Austria	2.79	2.04
205	Spain	2.78	2.46
206	Monaco	2.78	3.07
207	Liechtenstein	2.78	2.77
208	Saint Barthélemy	2.74	3.19
209	Finland	2.71	3.01
210	Isle of Man	2.69	2.36
211	San Marino	2.68	2.71
212	Belarus	2.67	2.66
213	Belgium	2.62	2.29
214	Lithuania	2.61	2.70
215	Denmark	2.55	2.51
216	Andorra	2.54	2.19
217	Switzerland	2.52	2.31
218	Russian Federation	2.52	2.90
219	Jersey	2.50	2.09
220	Germany	2.47	2.17
221	Italy	2.42	2.38
222	Luxembourg	2.33	1.99
223	Bulgaria	2.28	2.45
224	Guernsey	2.27	2.26
225	Slovenia	2.27	2.83
226	Greece	2.24	2.48
227	Croatia	2.22	2.66
228	Ukraine	2.20	2.43
229	Sweden	2.20	2.21
230	Romania	2.16	3.05
231	Serbia	2.13	2.82
232	Czechia	2.11	2.79
233	Estonia	1.99	2.27
234	Latvia	1.96	2.01
235	Hungary	1.94	2.54
236	Japan	1.93	3.23
237	Holy See	1.00	1.00

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