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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. [9]
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.
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 ...
In this article, we will be taking a look at the 25 countries with highest fertility rates. To skip our detailed analysis, you can go directly to see 10 Countries With Highest Fertility Rates.
Enid Charles (1894–1972), British pioneer in demography and population statistics and expert on fertility rates; Helen C. Chase, president of Statistics Section of American Public Health Association; Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Swiss expert on extreme events and risk management
Countries need a fertility rate of about 2.1 kids per family to maintain a stable population. But two-thirds of the world's population already lives in countries where fertility is below this so ...
South Korea’s total fertility rate – the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime – has been steadily declining since 2015. It fell below one child per woman ...
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.