Fertility Rate — World Ranking

The average number of children a woman would have in her lifetime. Below 2.1 the population of a country starts to shrink.

Malaysia sits at #144 of 215 countries with a value of 1.6 children per woman — the full leaderboard is in the table below.

The top 50 — Fertility Rate

Sorted with the highest value first (a neutral indicator — both ends of the scale have a story), data year 2023. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	Somalia	6.1 children per woman
2	Chad	6.1 children per woman
3	Niger	6.1 children per woman
4	DR Congo	6.1 children per woman
5	Central African Republic	6 children per woman
6	Mali	5.6 children per woman
7	Angola	5.1 children per woman
8	Burundi	4.9 children per woman
9	Afghanistan	4.8 children per woman
10	Mozambique	4.8 children per woman
11	Mauritania	4.7 children per woman
12	Tanzania	4.6 children per woman
13	Yemen	4.6 children per woman
14	Benin	4.6 children per woman
15	Nigeria	4.5 children per woman
16	Sudan	4.3 children per woman
17	Cameroon	4.3 children per woman
18	Ivory Coast	4.3 children per woman
19	Uganda	4.3 children per woman
20	Guinea	4.2 children per woman
21	Togo	4.2 children per woman
22	Burkina Faso	4.2 children per woman
23	Republic of the Congo	4.2 children per woman
24	Zambia	4.1 children per woman
25	Equatorial Guinea	4.1 children per woman
26	Gambia	4 children per woman
27	Ethiopia	4 children per woman
28	Madagascar	4 children per woman
29	Liberia	4 children per woman
30	Comoros	3.9 children per woman
31	South Sudan	3.9 children per woman
32	Guinea-Bissau	3.8 children per woman
33	Samoa	3.8 children per woman
34	Senegal	3.8 children per woman
35	Sierra Leone	3.8 children per woman
36	Zimbabwe	3.7 children per woman
37	Eritrea	3.7 children per woman
38	Rwanda	3.7 children per woman
39	Malawi	3.6 children per woman
40	Gabon	3.6 children per woman
41	São Tomé and Príncipe	3.6 children per woman
42	Pakistan	3.6 children per woman
43	Vanuatu	3.6 children per woman
44	Solomon Islands	3.6 children per woman
45	Uzbekistan	3.5 children per woman
46	Ghana	3.4 children per woman
47	Nauru	3.3 children per woman
48	Palestine	3.3 children per woman
49	Iraq	3.2 children per woman
50	Namibia	3.2 children per woman

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data (indicator SP.DYN.TFRT.IN, year 2023) — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.