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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 ...
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.
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 ...
More than half of all countries have a fertility rate less than 2.1 births per woman, or what’s known as the “replacement rate,” because it’s the number of children that each woman would ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Even in Africa, rates are dropping, with a few countries now below replacement level. In South Korea, which has the lowest birthrate in the world, less than one-fourth as many babies were born in ...