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The replacement fertility rate is 2.1 births per female for most developed countries (in the United Kingdom, for example), but can be as high as 3.5 in undeveloped countries because of higher mortality rates, especially child mortality. [11]
A 2023 map of countries by fertility rate. Blue indicates negative fertility rates. Red indicates positive rates. The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of ...
This is a list of countries showing past fertility rate, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. The fertility rate equals the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years.
As life expectancies increase and fertility rates decrease, the world’s population will grow older. Projections show that those 65 and older will outnumber children younger than 18 by 2080.
Pixabay/Public Domain. The countries with the highest fertility rates are mostly based in Africa. In fact, of the 25 countries in our list, 24 are from Africa and one in Asia.
The new analysis estimates that 46% of countries had a fertility rate below replacement level in 2021. ... meaning the population of almost all countries in the world will be declining by the end ...
The following list sorts countries and dependent territories by their net reproduction rate.The net reproduction rate (R 0) is the number of surviving daughters per woman and an important indicator of the population's reproductive rate.
Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023. ... List of countries by total fertility rate;