List of countries by birth rate

Countries by birth rate
(2005-2010 UN estimates)

This is a list of countries by crude birth rate, based on the United Nations Population Division's quinquennial estimates and projections.^[1][2] Figures are for the period 2005-2010 using the medium assumption. Crude birth rate refers to the number of births over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is expressed as number of births per 1,000 population. The average crude birth rate for the entire world is 20.3 births per 1,000 population.

Rank	Country	Birth rate (births per 1000 persons)
1	Democratic Republic of the Congo	49.6
2	Guinea-Bissau	49.6
3	Liberia	49.6
4	Niger	49.0
5	Afghanistan	48.2
6	Mali	48.1
7	Angola	47.3
8	Burundi	47.1
9	Uganda	46.6
10	Sierra Leone	46.2
11	Chad	45.5
12	Rwanda	44.5
13	Burkina Faso	44.0
14	Somalia	42.9
15	Timor-Leste	42.1
16	Malawi	40.7
17	Benin	40.2
18	Nigeria	39.9
19	Guinea	39.8
20	Mozambique	39.5
21	Eritrea	39.3
22	Zambia	39.3
23	Kenya	39.2
24	Tanzania	39.0
25	Equatorial Guinea	38.5
26	Yemen	38.3
27	Ethiopia	38.2
28	Togo	36.8
29	Madagascar	36.4
30	Central African Republic	36.1
31	Palestinian territories	35.9
32	Côte d'Ivoire	35.3
33	Senegal	35.2
34	Republic of the Congo	35.1
35	Gambia	34.9
36	Cameroon	34.5
37	Comoros	33.4
38	Guatemala	33.2
39	Mauritania	32.5
40	São Tomé and Príncipe	32.4
41	Iraq	31.7
42	Sudan	31.5
43	Solomon Islands	30.5
44	Ghana	29.6
45	Papua New Guinea	29.6
46	Lesotho	29.0
47	Cape Verde	28.9
48	Vanuatu	28.8
49	Djibouti	28.7
50	Swaziland	28.5
51	Nepal	28.1
52	Haiti	27.9
53	Honduras	27.9
54	Zimbabwe	27.9
55	Bolivia	27.3
56	Tajikistan	27.3
57	Pakistan	27.2
58	Laos	26.8
59	Syria	26.7
60	Cambodia	26.4
61	Jordan	25.9
62	Federated States of Micronesia	25.9
63	Philippines	25.8
64	Gabon	25.7
65	Namibia	25.7
66	Tonga	25.6
67	Belize	25.2
68	Botswana	24.9
69	Nicaragua	24.9
70	Saudi Arabia	24.9
71	Bangladesh	24.8
72	Paraguay	24.8
73	Samoa	24.7
74	Egypt	24.2
75	French Guiana ( France)	23.9
76	Dominican Republic	23.5
77	Libya	23.4
78	Maldives	23.4
79	Western Sahara	23.3
80	India	23.0
81	El Salvador	22.8
82	Uzbekistan	22.6
83	South Africa	22.3
84	Oman	22.1
85	Kyrgyzstan	21.8
86	Turkmenistan	21.8
87	Brunei	21.5
88	Venezuela	21.4
89	Fiji	21.1
90	Ecuador	21.0
91	Peru	20.9
92	Algeria	20.8
93	Panama	20.8
94	Malaysia	20.6
95	Morocco	20.5
96	Iran	20.3
97	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	20.1
98	Jamaica	19.9
99	Israel	19.7
100	Kazakhstan	19.7
101	Suriname	19.5
102	Mexico	19.3
103	Brazil	19.2
104	Saint Lucia	19.1
105	Vietnam	18.8
106	Colombia	18.7
107	Indonesia	18.7
108	Bhutan	18.5
109	Guam ( United States)	18.5
110	Mongolia	18.4
111	Turkey	18.4
112	French Polynesia ( France)	18.3
113	Lebanon	18.2
114	Myanmar	18.2
115	Grenada	18.0
116	Réunion ( France)	18.0
117	Kuwait	17.9
118	Costa Rica	17.8
119	Argentina	17.5
120	Bahrain	17.1
121	Guyana	17.1
122	Bahamas	16.9
123	Tunisia	16.7
124	New Caledonia ( France)	16.4
125	Albania	16.3
126	Azerbaijan	16.2
127	Qatar	16.2
128	United Arab Emirates	16.2
129	Ireland	15.5
130	Uruguay	15.1
131	Chile	15.0
132	Sri Lanka	15.0
133	Mauritius	14.8
134	Guadeloupe ( France)	14.8
135	Trinidad and Tobago	14.8
136	Thailand	14.6
137	Iceland	14.3
138	Aruba ( Netherlands)	14.1
139	United States	14.0
140	New Zealand	13.7
141	Montenegro	13.6
142	U.S. Virgin Islands ( United States)	13.4
143	Puerto Rico ( United States)	13.3
144	North Korea	13.2
145	People's Republic of China (mainland only)	13.1
146	Serbia	12.8
147	Armenia	12.5
148	Netherlands Antilles	12.5
149	Australia	12.4
150	Martinique ( France)	12.4
151	Cyprus	12.2
152	France (metropolitan)	12.2
153	United Kingdom	12.0
154	Norway	12.0
155	Luxembourg	11.5
156	Moldova	11.4
157	Sweden	11.3
158	Denmark	11.2
159	Finland	11.2
160	Netherlands	11.1
161	Barbados	11.0
162	Republic of Macedonia	10.9
163	Estonia	10.8
164	Georgia	10.8
165	Spain	10.8
166	Russia	10.7
167	Portugal	10.5
168	Belgium	10.4
169	Canada	10.3
170	Cuba	10.3
171	Slovakia	10.0
172	Malta	9.8
173	Romania	9.8
174	Poland	9.5
175	Channel Islands ( United Kingdom)	9.4
176	Belarus	9.4
177	Greece	9.3
178	Hungary	9.3
179	South Korea	9.3
180	Latvia	9.3
181	Austria	9.2
182	Czech Republic	9.2
183	Italy	9.2
184	Switzerland	9.2
185	Ukraine	9.2
186	Lithuania	9.1
187	Croatia	9.0
188	Slovenia	9.0
189	Bulgaria	8.9
190	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.8
191	Japan	8.3
192	Germany	8.2
193	Singapore	8.2
194	Hong Kong ( People's Republic of China)	7.6
195	Macau ( People's Republic of China)	7.6

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