Fertility rate

The number of children a woman would have at this year's birth rates.

The total fertility rate is the number of children a woman would have over her life if, at each age, she had children at the rates of that year. In countries where few children die young, about 2.1 children per woman keeps a population stable in the long run, without migration. The World Bank publishes it mainly from the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects.

World map · Births per woman

Year

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

Over time · Births per woman

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

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Every country and year, with the source on each row.

Highest values, 2024

Births per woman. Select a country to add it to the chart.

1 6.03 per woman
2 6.01 per woman
3 5.98 per woman
4 5.95 per woman
5 5.93 per woman
6 5.51 per woman
7 5.05 per woman
8 4.79 per woman
9 4.76 per woman
10 4.69 per woman

World: 2.19 per woman

About the author

Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.

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