Total fertility rate by country, 2011

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

◀▶2011

#	Country / area	Total fertility rate	2001
1	Niger	7.59	7.81
2	Somalia	7.27	7.64
3	Chad	6.95	7.23
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.58	6.66
5	Mali	6.54	6.85
6	Angola	6.12	6.60
7	Burundi	6.11	6.85
8	Afghanistan	6.09	7.45
9	Central African Republic	6.01	5.81
10	Nigeria	5.89	6.13
11	Uganda	5.88	6.76
12	Burkina Faso	5.87	6.43
13	Mozambique	5.60	5.76
14	Gambia	5.54	5.67
15	Benin	5.44	5.85
16	Mauritania	5.38	5.41
17	Guinea	5.34	5.83
18	Zambia	5.26	5.85
19	Côte d'Ivoire	5.24	5.70
20	Sierra Leone	5.21	6.31
21	South Sudan	5.19	6.65
22	United Republic of Tanzania	5.14	5.62
23	Equatorial Guinea	5.13	5.78
24	Senegal	5.10	5.40
25	Sudan	5.09	5.56
26	Ethiopia	5.08	6.58
27	Malawi	5.08	5.94
28	Guinea-Bissau	5.07	5.69
29	Cameroon	5.05	5.44
30	Togo	4.98	5.13
31	Liberia	4.97	5.77
32	Congo	4.83	4.67
33	Madagascar	4.74	5.53
34	Comoros	4.72	5.20
35	Sao Tome and Principe	4.72	5.10
36	Yemen	4.63	6.14
37	Timor-Leste	4.61	5.92
38	Iraq	4.59	4.80
39	Samoa	4.56	4.48
40	Eritrea	4.49	5.31
41	Mayotte	4.39	4.81
42	Solomon Islands	4.34	4.67
43	Rwanda	4.33	5.89
44	Pakistan	4.31	5.18
45	State of Palestine	4.30	5.34
46	Kenya	4.28	5.09
47	Ghana	4.18	4.77
48	Gabon	4.15	4.42
49	Zimbabwe	4.13	3.98
50	Nauru	4.12	3.46
51	Vanuatu	4.09	4.50
52	Kiribati	3.88	3.96
53	Tonga	3.83	4.13
54	Papua New Guinea	3.82	4.47
55	Jordan	3.69	3.80
56	Namibia	3.66	3.83
57	Marshall Islands	3.53	4.58
58	French Guiana	3.48	3.78
59	Tajikistan	3.46	3.49
60	Tuvalu	3.46	3.75
61	Haiti	3.43	4.25
62	Djibouti	3.34	4.52
63	Lesotho	3.34	3.63
64	Eswatini	3.32	3.94
65	Egypt	3.31	3.46
66	Guatemala	3.29	4.50
67	Syrian Arab Republic	3.28	3.98
68	Philippines	3.24	3.72
69	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	3.22	4.08
70	Northern Mariana Islands	3.21	1.74
71	American Samoa	3.17	3.87
72	Tokelau	3.16	3.67
73	Kyrgyzstan	3.14	2.55
74	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	3.14	3.89
75	Botswana	3.10	3.25
76	Lao People's Democratic Republic	3.05	4.29
77	Niue	3.03	2.87
78	Israel	3.01	2.87
79	Honduras	3.00	4.15
80	Oman	2.95	3.66
81	Algeria	2.90	2.52
82	Turkmenistan	2.90	2.81
83	Guam	2.88	2.82
84	Saudi Arabia	2.80	3.96
85	Cambodia	2.78	3.69
86	Guyana	2.69	2.96
87	Suriname	2.67	3.06
88	Paraguay	2.67	3.36
89	Libya	2.65	2.87
90	Fiji	2.63	2.97
91	Ecuador	2.61	3.04
92	Kazakhstan	2.61	1.91
93	Panama	2.60	2.72
94	Morocco	2.60	2.69
95	Mongolia	2.60	2.19
96	Western Sahara	2.59	3.34
97	Nicaragua	2.56	3.00
98	India	2.53	3.30
99	Dominican Republic	2.53	2.83
100	Belize	2.53	3.53
101	Indonesia	2.52	2.47
102	Nepal	2.46	3.79
103	South Africa	2.44	2.37
104	Saint Martin (French part)	2.42	2.90
105	Peru	2.41	2.74
106	Cook Islands	2.40	3.06
107	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	2.40	2.78
108	Argentina	2.39	2.53
109	Seychelles	2.37	1.98
110	Uzbekistan	2.35	2.61
111	United States Virgin Islands	2.34	2.47
112	Cabo Verde	2.33	3.37
113	Faroe Islands	2.33	2.35
114	Mexico	2.32	2.67
115	Lebanon	2.32	2.58
116	Bangladesh	2.31	3.20
117	Myanmar	2.31	2.79
118	Maldives	2.31	2.53
119	Wallis and Futuna Islands	2.28	2.37
120	El Salvador	2.22	2.93
121	Monaco	2.22	2.18
122	New Caledonia	2.20	2.42
123	Tunisia	2.19	1.97
124	Réunion	2.19	2.45
125	Guadeloupe	2.17	2.23
126	Bhutan	2.16	3.19
127	Malaysia	2.15	2.81
128	Sri Lanka	2.14	2.28
129	Curaçao	2.11	2.41
130	Greenland	2.10	2.45
131	New Zealand	2.10	1.96
132	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2.08	2.30
133	Qatar	2.07	3.08
134	French Polynesia	2.06	2.52
135	Türkiye	2.05	2.39
136	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	2.04	2.76
137	Ireland	2.03	1.94
138	Iceland	2.02	1.95
139	Bahrain	2.02	2.65
140	Grenada	2.01	2.42
141	Martinique	2.01	1.90
142	Uruguay	1.99	2.16
143	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1.99	1.89
144	France	1.99	1.88
145	Azerbaijan	1.98	1.59
146	Gibraltar	1.97	2.10
147	Palau	1.97	1.87
148	Kuwait	1.96	2.84
149	Brunei Darussalam	1.96	2.34
150	Colombia	1.94	2.52
151	Viet Nam	1.93	2.02
152	Australia	1.92	1.74
153	Georgia	1.92	1.58
154	United Kingdom	1.91	1.62
155	Sweden	1.90	1.57
156	Isle of Man	1.90	1.87
157	United States of America	1.88	2.01
158	Costa Rica	1.88	2.31
159	Norway	1.88	1.79
160	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	1.88	1.94
161	Aruba	1.86	1.81
162	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.86	2.34
163	Dominica	1.86	2.40
164	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	1.83	1.97
165	Finland	1.83	1.72
166	Chile	1.82	2.01
167	Belgium	1.80	1.67
168	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	1.79	1.92
169	Bahamas	1.79	2.02
170	Brazil	1.78	2.16
171	Barbados	1.76	1.95
172	Antigua and Barbuda	1.75	2.02
173	Netherlands	1.75	1.71
174	Denmark	1.75	1.74
175	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.74	2.08
176	Cuba	1.73	1.59
177	Jamaica	1.72	2.30
178	Albania	1.68	2.14
179	Montenegro	1.68	1.85
180	Saint Helena	1.67	1.65
181	China	1.67	1.56
182	Liechtenstein	1.66	1.52
183	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	1.65	1.53
184	Republic of Moldova	1.65	1.47
185	Cayman Islands	1.64	1.70
186	Anguilla	1.63	2.00
187	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	1.63	1.77
188	Canada	1.63	1.53
189	North Macedonia	1.63	1.73
190	Armenia	1.62	1.40
191	Estonia	1.62	1.32
192	Trinidad and Tobago	1.61	1.71
193	Jersey	1.60	1.49
194	Puerto Rico	1.60	1.95
195	Russian Federation	1.60	1.22
196	Slovenia	1.57	1.21
197	Thailand	1.57	1.71
198	Bermuda	1.57	1.86
199	Montserrat	1.57	1.52
200	Guernsey	1.56	1.45
201	Lithuania	1.55	1.28
202	United Arab Emirates	1.54	2.62
203	Luxembourg	1.53	1.66
204	Belarus	1.52	1.24
205	Switzerland	1.51	1.39
206	Bulgaria	1.51	1.23
207	Saint Lucia	1.50	2.13
208	Croatia	1.49	1.46
209	Mauritius	1.48	1.89
210	Romania	1.48	1.27
211	Ukraine	1.46	1.09
212	San Marino	1.46	1.52
213	Slovakia	1.44	1.20
214	Malta	1.44	1.49
215	Italy	1.43	1.25
216	Austria	1.43	1.33
217	Czechia	1.43	1.15
218	Greece	1.40	1.33
219	Serbia	1.40	1.35
220	Germany	1.38	1.35
221	Cyprus	1.36	1.57
222	Japan	1.36	1.32
223	Spain	1.34	1.23
224	Poland	1.34	1.32
225	Portugal	1.34	1.46
226	Latvia	1.34	1.22
227	Andorra	1.32	1.30
228	British Virgin Islands	1.27	1.52
229	Republic of Korea	1.26	1.34
230	Hungary	1.25	1.31
231	Saint Barthélemy	1.24	1.52
232	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.21	1.23
233	China, Hong Kong SAR	1.14	0.94
234	China, Macao SAR	1.13	0.85
235	China, Taiwan Province of China	1.06	1.40
236	Holy See	1.00	1.00
237	Singapore	0.96	1.19

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