Total fertility rate by country, 2012

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

◀▶2012

#	Country / area	Total fertility rate	2002
1	Niger	7.53	7.80
2	Somalia	7.21	7.63
3	Chad	6.91	7.20
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.56	6.61
5	Mali	6.52	6.82
6	Central African Republic	6.05	5.79
7	Angola	6.04	6.57
8	Burundi	5.99	6.82
9	Afghanistan	5.98	7.32
10	Nigeria	5.80	6.12
11	Burkina Faso	5.79	6.34
12	Uganda	5.73	6.74
13	Gambia	5.52	5.66
14	Mozambique	5.52	5.67
15	Benin	5.43	5.79
16	Mauritania	5.35	5.37
17	Guinea	5.23	5.78
18	Côte d'Ivoire	5.19	5.64
19	Zambia	5.14	5.77
20	United Republic of Tanzania	5.14	5.57
21	Senegal	5.13	5.30
22	Sierra Leone	5.06	6.23
23	South Sudan	5.06	6.52
24	Equatorial Guinea	5.04	5.73
25	Sudan	5.03	5.53
26	Guinea-Bissau	5.00	5.63
27	Cameroon	4.98	5.43
28	Malawi	4.90	5.90
29	Ethiopia	4.89	6.50
30	Liberia	4.88	5.65
31	Togo	4.85	5.09
32	Congo	4.79	4.70
33	Sao Tome and Principe	4.66	5.06
34	Comoros	4.65	5.16
35	Yemen	4.63	5.97
36	Madagascar	4.61	5.41
37	Samoa	4.55	4.44
38	Iraq	4.54	4.67
39	Eritrea	4.41	5.23
40	Timor-Leste	4.40	5.90
41	Mayotte	4.36	4.66
42	Solomon Islands	4.33	4.60
43	Pakistan	4.20	5.01
44	Rwanda	4.20	5.82
45	Ghana	4.15	4.69
46	State of Palestine	4.15	5.22
47	Zimbabwe	4.13	3.92
48	Kenya	4.12	5.03
49	Nauru	4.11	3.40
50	Gabon	4.09	4.36
51	Vanuatu	4.06	4.38
52	Kiribati	3.77	3.81
53	Tonga	3.77	4.14
54	Papua New Guinea	3.75	4.42
55	Namibia	3.68	3.69
56	French Guiana	3.62	3.72
57	Jordan	3.57	3.81
58	Tuvalu	3.47	3.64
59	Tajikistan	3.42	3.47
60	Egypt	3.40	3.41
61	Marshall Islands	3.38	4.49
62	Northern Mariana Islands	3.33	1.68
63	Haiti	3.32	4.13
64	Lesotho	3.30	3.68
65	Eswatini	3.27	3.85
66	Djibouti	3.26	4.41
67	Guatemala	3.22	4.37
68	Syrian Arab Republic	3.22	3.87
69	Kyrgyzstan	3.18	2.57
70	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	3.18	3.93
71	Philippines	3.14	3.65
72	Guam	3.12	2.58
73	Tokelau	3.10	3.57
74	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	3.08	3.80
75	Botswana	3.07	3.17
76	Israel	3.05	2.88
77	American Samoa	3.04	3.87
78	Niue	3.01	2.86
79	Algeria	3.00	2.43
80	Turkmenistan	2.96	2.71
81	Lao People's Democratic Republic	2.95	4.13
82	Oman	2.93	3.51
83	Honduras	2.93	4.00
84	Saudi Arabia	2.78	3.71
85	Saint Martin (French part)	2.77	2.90
86	Cambodia	2.75	3.57
87	Mongolia	2.74	2.10
88	Guyana	2.70	2.84
89	Libya	2.68	2.83
90	Suriname	2.67	2.96
91	Paraguay	2.66	3.23
92	Kazakhstan	2.64	1.96
93	Fiji	2.61	2.97
94	Panama	2.59	2.70
95	Faroe Islands	2.56	2.54
96	Western Sahara	2.55	3.19
97	Morocco	2.54	2.62
98	Nicaragua	2.53	2.89
99	Indonesia	2.51	2.44
100	Ecuador	2.51	2.97
101	Belize	2.51	3.43
102	Dominican Republic	2.50	2.76
103	India	2.47	3.22
104	South Africa	2.45	2.32
105	Nepal	2.42	3.60
106	Seychelles	2.41	2.03
107	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	2.38	2.74
108	Peru	2.36	2.69
109	Uzbekistan	2.34	2.57
110	Cook Islands	2.34	2.97
111	Lebanon	2.34	2.52
112	Argentina	2.30	2.49
113	Mexico	2.29	2.63
114	Monaco	2.29	2.01
115	Tunisia	2.28	1.94
116	Myanmar	2.28	2.76
117	Bangladesh	2.26	3.13
118	Maldives	2.25	2.43
119	United States Virgin Islands	2.25	2.42
120	Réunion	2.23	2.41
121	New Caledonia	2.20	2.35
122	El Salvador	2.19	2.77
123	Curaçao	2.19	2.30
124	Guadeloupe	2.19	2.22
125	Sri Lanka	2.17	2.31
126	Cabo Verde	2.15	3.19
127	Azerbaijan	2.14	1.58
128	Malaysia	2.12	2.66
129	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2.11	2.22
130	Türkiye	2.11	2.27
131	Bahrain	2.11	2.70
132	New Zealand	2.09	1.89
133	Wallis and Futuna Islands	2.07	2.38
134	Bhutan	2.07	3.01
135	Qatar	2.04	3.01
136	Iceland	2.03	1.94
137	French Polynesia	2.03	2.42
138	Uruguay	2.01	2.16
139	Palau	2.01	1.92
140	Greenland	2.00	2.49
141	Gibraltar	2.00	1.68
142	Martinique	2.00	1.89
143	Ireland	1.99	1.97
144	Kuwait	1.99	2.79
145	France	1.99	1.87
146	Grenada	1.97	2.38
147	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	1.97	2.79
148	Brunei Darussalam	1.97	2.26
149	Viet Nam	1.97	2.01
150	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1.96	1.81
151	Australia	1.93	1.76
152	Georgia	1.93	1.57
153	Aruba	1.91	1.80
154	United Kingdom	1.91	1.63
155	Colombia	1.90	2.49
156	Sweden	1.90	1.65
157	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	1.88	1.92
158	United States of America	1.86	2.00
159	Isle of Man	1.86	1.86
160	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	1.85	1.84
161	Costa Rica	1.85	2.16
162	Norway	1.85	1.76
163	Dominica	1.83	2.16
164	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.81	2.24
165	Chile	1.80	1.93
166	Finland	1.80	1.72
167	China	1.80	1.57
168	Belgium	1.78	1.65
169	Brazil	1.77	2.08
170	Bahamas	1.76	1.98
171	Barbados	1.73	1.86
172	Montenegro	1.73	1.81
173	Albania	1.72	2.00
174	Netherlands	1.72	1.73
175	Denmark	1.72	1.73
176	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.71	2.04
177	Russian Federation	1.71	1.29
178	North Macedonia	1.71	1.79
179	Saint Helena	1.69	1.62
180	Cuba	1.67	1.65
181	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	1.67	1.96
182	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	1.67	1.55
183	Antigua and Barbuda	1.66	1.94
184	Republic of Moldova	1.66	1.45
185	Armenia	1.65	1.41
186	Jamaica	1.65	2.27
187	Canada	1.63	1.51
188	Belarus	1.62	1.20
189	Anguilla	1.61	1.74
190	Trinidad and Tobago	1.61	1.67
191	Jersey	1.59	1.48
192	Slovenia	1.59	1.21
193	Lithuania	1.59	1.23
194	Luxembourg	1.57	1.63
195	Estonia	1.56	1.35
196	Guernsey	1.56	1.45
197	Thailand	1.56	1.69
198	Montserrat	1.56	1.45
199	Puerto Rico	1.54	1.86
200	United Arab Emirates	1.53	2.54
201	Ukraine	1.53	1.13
202	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	1.53	1.69
203	Cayman Islands	1.53	1.68
204	Bermuda	1.53	1.81
205	Croatia	1.52	1.43
206	Switzerland	1.52	1.38
207	Liechtenstein	1.51	1.47
208	Romania	1.51	1.27
209	Saint Lucia	1.50	2.03
210	Bulgaria	1.50	1.22
211	Mauritius	1.48	1.92
212	Czechia	1.45	1.17
213	Austria	1.44	1.39
214	Serbia	1.44	1.36
215	Latvia	1.44	1.26
216	Italy	1.42	1.26
217	Malta	1.42	1.46
218	Germany	1.40	1.34
219	Slovakia	1.39	1.19
220	Cyprus	1.38	1.50
221	Japan	1.38	1.31
222	Greece	1.34	1.34
223	Hungary	1.33	1.30
224	Poland	1.33	1.25
225	Spain	1.32	1.25
226	San Marino	1.29	1.43
227	Portugal	1.28	1.46
228	Republic of Korea	1.27	1.23
229	Andorra	1.26	1.26
230	Saint Barthélemy	1.25	1.54
231	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.25	1.23
232	China, Hong Kong SAR	1.21	0.93
233	China, Taiwan Province of China	1.19	1.33
234	China, Macao SAR	1.19	0.81
235	British Virgin Islands	1.10	1.25
236	Singapore	1.03	1.17
237	Holy See	1.00	1.00

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