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Top 10 Countries with the Highest Birth Rates

The countries where women have the most children on average.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by fertility rate (births per woman)
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data

  1. Chad

    Data year 2024

    6.0 births/woman

    No change

  2. Somalia, Fed. Rep.

    Data year 2025

    6.0 births/woman

    No change

  3. Congo, Dem. Rep.

    Data year 2024

    6.0 births/woman

    No change
  1. 4Central African RepublicData year 20246.0 births/womanNo change
  2. 5NigerData year 20245.9 births/womanNo change
  3. 6MaliData year 20245.5 births/womanNo change
  4. 7AngolaData year 20255.0 births/womanNo change
  5. 8BurundiData year 20234.8 births/womanNo change
  6. 9AfghanistanData year 20244.8 births/womanNo change
  7. 10MozambiqueData year 20244.7 births/womanNo change
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  1. 11MauritaniaData year 20244.6 births/womanNo change
  2. 12TanzaniaData year 20244.5 births/womanNo change
  3. 13Yemen, Rep.Data year 20234.5 births/womanNo change
  4. 14BeninData year 20234.5 births/womanNo change
  5. 15NigeriaData year 20244.4 births/womanNo change
  6. 16SudanData year 20244.3 births/womanNo change
  7. 17CameroonData year 20244.3 births/womanNo change
  8. 18Cote d'IvoireData year 20244.2 births/womanNo change
  9. 19UgandaData year 20244.2 births/womanNo change
  10. 20GuineaData year 20244.1 births/womanNo change
  11. 21TogoData year 20234.1 births/womanNo change
  12. 22Equatorial GuineaData year 20244.1 births/womanNo change
  13. 23Burkina FasoData year 20244.1 births/womanNo change
  14. 24Congo, Rep.Data year 20244.1 births/womanNo change
  15. 25ZambiaData year 20244.0 births/womanNo change
  16. 26MadagascarData year 20253.9 births/womanNo change
  17. 27EthiopiaData year 20243.9 births/womanNo change
  18. 28Gambia, TheData year 20233.9 births/womanNo change
  19. 29LiberiaData year 20243.9 births/womanNo change
  20. 30ComorosData year 20243.8 births/womanNo change
  21. 31SamoaData year 20243.8 births/womanNo change
  22. 32South SudanData year 20253.8 births/womanNo change
  23. 33SenegalData year 20233.8 births/womanNo change
  24. 34Guinea-BissauData year 20243.8 births/womanNo change
  25. 35Sierra LeoneData year 20253.7 births/womanNo change
  26. 36EritreaData year 20233.7 births/womanNo change
  27. 37ZimbabweData year 20243.7 births/womanNo change
  28. 38RwandaData year 20233.6 births/womanNo change
  29. 39Sao Tome and PrincipeData year 20243.6 births/womanNo change
  30. 40GabonData year 20243.6 births/womanNo change
  31. 41MalawiData year 20253.6 births/womanNo change
  32. 42VanuatuData year 20243.6 births/womanNo change
  33. 43PakistanData year 20243.5 births/womanNo change
  34. 44Solomon IslandsData year 20233.5 births/womanNo change
  35. 45UzbekistanData year 20233.5 births/womanNo change
  36. 46GhanaData year 20243.3 births/womanNo change
  37. 47NaoeroData year 20233.3 births/womanNo change
  38. 48West Bank and GazaData year 20213.3 births/womanNo change
  39. 49IraqData year 20243.2 births/womanNo change
  40. 50NamibiaData year 20243.2 births/womanNo change

How this list is ranked

Fertility rate (births per woman) (World Bank indicator SP.DYN.TFRT.IN), latest year available for each country, from the last 6 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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