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Low income countries: 4.5 2: Lower middle income countries: 2.6 3: Low and middle income countries: 2.4 4: Middle income countries: 2.1 5: Upper middle income countries: 1.6 6: High income countries: 1.5 Not ranked (no data or data from other years) 1 American Samoa - 2 Andorra: 1.3 (2010) 3 Cayman Islands - 4 Monaco - 5 Northern Mariana ...
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.
In 2016, all European Union countries had a sub-replacement fertility rate, ranging from a low of 1.3 in Portugal, Poland, Greece, Spain and Cyprus to a high of 2.0 in France. [4] The countries or areas that have the lowest fertility are in developed parts of East and Southeast Asia: Singapore , Hong Kong and South Korea . [ 4 ]
The new analysis estimates that 46% of countries had a fertility rate below replacement level in 2021. That number will increase to 97% by 2100, meaning the population of almost all countries in ...
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 ...
South Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate, at just 0.78 births per woman as of 2022.It's likely to get even worse, with Statistics Korea, the country's official statistics bureau ...
Neighbouring Japan said on Tuesday the number of babies born in 2023 fell for an eighth straight year to a fresh record low. Japan's fertility rate hit a record low of 1.26 in 2022, while China ...
Generally a developed country has a lower fertility rate while a less economically developed country has a higher fertility rate. For example the total fertility rate for Japan, a developed country with per capita GDP of US$32,600 in 2009, was 1.22 children born per woman. But total fertility rate in Ethiopia, with a per capita GDP of $900 in ...