Total fertility rate by country, 2010

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

◀▶2010

#	Country / area	Total fertility rate	2000
1	Niger	7.64	7.83
2	Somalia	7.32	7.64
3	Chad	6.99	7.25
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.59	6.70
5	Mali	6.58	6.89
6	Burundi	6.26	6.87
7	Afghanistan	6.20	7.57
8	Angola	6.19	6.64
9	Uganda	6.02	6.79
10	Central African Republic	5.96	5.85
11	Nigeria	5.95	6.12
12	Burkina Faso	5.94	6.52
13	Mozambique	5.66	5.83
14	Gambia	5.56	5.72
15	Benin	5.45	5.94
16	Guinea	5.44	5.92
17	Mauritania	5.38	5.46
18	Zambia	5.36	5.92
19	Sierra Leone	5.33	6.35
20	South Sudan	5.32	6.80
21	Côte d'Ivoire	5.29	5.77
22	Ethiopia	5.28	6.65
23	Malawi	5.26	6.00
24	United Republic of Tanzania	5.23	5.67
25	Equatorial Guinea	5.21	5.83
26	Cameroon	5.15	5.51
27	Sudan	5.14	5.60
28	Guinea-Bissau	5.11	5.79
29	Togo	5.09	5.17
30	Senegal	5.06	5.50
31	Liberia	5.06	5.87
32	Madagascar	4.90	5.66
33	Congo	4.85	4.72
34	Timor-Leste	4.82	5.93
35	Yemen	4.81	6.32
36	Sao Tome and Principe	4.77	5.16
37	Comoros	4.75	5.23
38	Eritrea	4.57	5.40
39	Samoa	4.52	4.52
40	Rwanda	4.52	5.97
41	Iraq	4.46	4.92
42	Kenya	4.45	5.14
43	State of Palestine	4.43	5.46
44	Mayotte	4.43	4.96
45	Pakistan	4.40	5.35
46	Solomon Islands	4.34	4.76
47	Ghana	4.18	4.83
48	Gabon	4.15	4.47
49	Vanuatu	4.13	4.54
50	Zimbabwe	4.04	4.01
51	Nauru	4.02	3.54
52	Kiribati	3.90	4.07
53	Tonga	3.88	4.16
54	Papua New Guinea	3.88	4.52
55	Jordan	3.78	3.86
56	Marshall Islands	3.67	4.70
57	Namibia	3.66	3.99
58	Haiti	3.50	4.39
59	Tajikistan	3.46	3.49
60	Tuvalu	3.44	3.84
61	Djibouti	3.43	4.60
62	French Guiana	3.43	3.96
63	Guatemala	3.38	4.58
64	Eswatini	3.37	4.03
65	Syrian Arab Republic	3.36	4.07
66	Philippines	3.31	3.75
67	Egypt	3.30	3.51
68	American Samoa	3.29	3.89
69	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	3.27	4.22
70	Tokelau	3.25	3.82
71	Lesotho	3.25	3.61
72	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	3.21	3.99
73	Lao People's Democratic Republic	3.14	4.43
74	Botswana	3.13	3.29
75	Kyrgyzstan	3.10	2.58
76	Honduras	3.08	4.29
77	Niue	3.05	2.90
78	Israel	3.03	2.92
79	Northern Mariana Islands	2.98	1.64
80	Oman	2.97	3.85
81	Guam	2.97	2.92
82	Algeria	2.87	2.59
83	Cambodia	2.86	3.79
84	Turkmenistan	2.85	2.90
85	Saudi Arabia	2.81	4.21
86	Fiji	2.70	2.99
87	Suriname	2.69	3.05
88	Paraguay	2.69	3.51
89	Guyana	2.68	3.06
90	Western Sahara	2.64	3.49
91	Morocco	2.63	2.77
92	Ecuador	2.61	3.10
93	Kazakhstan	2.61	1.90
94	India	2.60	3.35
95	Nicaragua	2.60	3.12
96	Libya	2.60	2.91
97	Panama	2.59	2.74
98	Dominican Republic	2.56	2.87
99	Belize	2.55	3.63
100	Nepal	2.54	3.98
101	Mongolia	2.52	2.25
102	Faroe Islands	2.50	2.56
103	United States Virgin Islands	2.48	2.34
104	Indonesia	2.46	2.50
105	Cook Islands	2.45	3.11
106	Uzbekistan	2.44	2.70
107	South Africa	2.44	2.41
108	Peru	2.42	2.85
109	Argentina	2.41	2.59
110	Saint Martin (French part)	2.40	2.88
111	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	2.40	2.79
112	Monaco	2.39	2.08
113	Bangladesh	2.38	3.28
114	Maldives	2.35	2.69
115	Myanmar	2.34	2.81
116	Mexico	2.34	2.71
117	Cabo Verde	2.33	3.55
118	Lebanon	2.26	2.60
119	Bhutan	2.25	3.38
120	El Salvador	2.24	3.08
121	Greenland	2.24	2.35
122	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	2.22	2.70
123	Seychelles	2.20	2.07
124	Iceland	2.19	2.07
125	New Caledonia	2.19	2.51
126	Réunion	2.19	2.50
127	Curaçao	2.18	2.34
128	New Zealand	2.17	1.98
129	French Polynesia	2.17	2.60
130	Qatar	2.14	3.07
131	Guadeloupe	2.14	2.22
132	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2.14	2.31
133	Malaysia	2.14	2.94
134	Sri Lanka	2.13	2.21
135	Tunisia	2.08	2.03
136	Türkiye	2.08	2.49
137	Ireland	2.06	1.89
138	Kuwait	2.04	2.89
139	Grenada	2.04	2.44
140	Martinique	2.04	1.90
141	France	2.02	1.88
142	Uruguay	2.01	2.20
143	Colombia	2.01	2.57
144	Bahrain	1.99	2.80
145	Georgia	1.97	1.61
146	Sweden	1.97	1.54
147	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	1.96	1.98
148	Australia	1.95	1.76
149	Gibraltar	1.95	2.18
150	Norway	1.94	1.85
151	Palau	1.94	1.82
152	Brunei Darussalam	1.94	2.40
153	Isle of Man	1.93	1.87
154	Azerbaijan	1.92	1.70
155	United States of America	1.92	2.03
156	United Kingdom	1.92	1.64
157	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.91	2.41
158	Viet Nam	1.91	2.03
159	Dominica	1.89	2.35
160	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	1.89	1.94
161	Wallis and Futuna Islands	1.87	2.45
162	Aruba	1.86	1.85
163	Denmark	1.86	1.76
164	Finland	1.86	1.73
165	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1.85	1.98
166	Belgium	1.85	1.66
167	Chile	1.84	2.05
168	Bahamas	1.84	2.06
169	Costa Rica	1.83	2.41
170	Jamaica	1.80	2.34
171	Antigua and Barbuda	1.79	2.20
172	Netherlands	1.79	1.72
173	Brazil	1.79	2.25
174	Barbados	1.78	1.93
175	Bermuda	1.77	1.74
176	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.76	2.13
177	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	1.75	2.00
178	Montenegro	1.73	1.90
179	Estonia	1.72	1.35
180	North Macedonia	1.71	1.86
181	Republic of Moldova	1.70	1.50
182	Cayman Islands	1.69	1.71
183	China	1.69	1.63
184	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	1.68	1.86
185	Cuba	1.67	1.61
186	Saint Lucia	1.67	2.21
187	Albania	1.65	2.22
188	Saint Helena	1.65	1.68
189	Canada	1.64	1.51
190	Anguilla	1.63	1.88
191	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	1.63	1.50
192	Puerto Rico	1.62	2.04
193	Luxembourg	1.62	1.76
194	Trinidad and Tobago	1.61	1.73
195	Armenia	1.59	1.47
196	Jersey	1.59	1.51
197	Russian Federation	1.59	1.19
198	Slovenia	1.58	1.25
199	Montserrat	1.58	1.23
200	United Arab Emirates	1.57	2.73
201	Bulgaria	1.57	1.29
202	Romania	1.57	1.30
203	Guernsey	1.56	1.47
204	Thailand	1.56	1.73
205	Croatia	1.55	1.42
206	Switzerland	1.52	1.49
207	Czechia	1.51	1.15
208	Lithuania	1.50	1.38
209	Mauritius	1.49	1.98
210	Greece	1.48	1.33
211	Belarus	1.48	1.27
212	San Marino	1.46	1.40
213	Italy	1.44	1.25
214	Ukraine	1.44	1.11
215	Austria	1.44	1.36
216	Cyprus	1.43	1.64
217	Slovakia	1.43	1.29
218	Liechtenstein	1.43	1.57
219	Poland	1.41	1.37
220	Serbia	1.40	1.35
221	Germany	1.40	1.39
222	Portugal	1.38	1.54
223	Malta	1.38	1.67
224	Spain	1.37	1.21
225	Latvia	1.37	1.24
226	Japan	1.36	1.35
227	Andorra	1.27	1.27
228	Hungary	1.26	1.32
229	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.26	1.28
230	Saint Barthélemy	1.25	1.49
231	Republic of Korea	1.23	1.47
232	British Virgin Islands	1.18	1.84
233	China, Hong Kong SAR	1.12	1.03
234	China, Macao SAR	1.05	0.93
235	Holy See	1.00	1.00
236	Singapore	0.93	1.34
237	China, Taiwan Province of China	0.92	1.47

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