Fertility Rate by Country (2026)

The three highest countries are Chad (6.03), Somalia (6.01), DR Congo (5.98); the three lowest are Macau (0.58), South Korea (0.75), Hong Kong (0.84).

Across all 216 countries the median is 1.9 births per woman and the simple (unweighted) average is 2.35; the spread from 0.58 to 6.03 shows how differently countries fare on this measure.

Over roughly the last decade the biggest increases were in Uzbekistan (+0.94 pts), Bosnia and Herzegovina (+0.23 pts), Kazakhstan (+0.22 pts), while the largest decreases were in Burkina Faso (-1.48 pts), Niger (-1.41 pts), Timor-Leste (-1.37 pts).

By continent, the leaders are Afghanistan in Asia (4.76), Monaco in Europe (2.1), Chad in Africa (6.03), Saint Martin in North America (2.67), Bolivia in South America (2.52), Samoa in Oceania (3.8).

The total fertility rate is the number of children a woman would bear if she lived through her childbearing years experiencing the current age-specific fertility rates. About 2.1 is the "replacement level" at which a population stays stable without migration.

Source: World Bank Open Data (indicator SP.DYN.TFRT.IN). Countries without a published value are not ranked. Each country's own page shows the full historical series and its rank on this and every other indicator.