List of countries by birth rate

This article includes two versions of the list of countries by crude birth rate.

Methodology

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 article lists 233 countries and territories in crude birth rate.

The first list is provided by Population Reference Bureau.^[1]

The second list is based on CIA World Factbook estimates for the year 2023.^[2]

Dependent territories and not fully recognized states might not be ranked.

List

Country/territory	PRB 2022[1]	CIA WF 2023[2]
Afghanistan	36	34.79
Albania	10	12.48
Algeria	22	17.84
Andorra	6	6.87
Angola	39	41.42
Antigua and Barbuda	12	15.01
Argentina	14	15.38
Armenia	12	10.80
Australia	12	12.23
Austria	10	9.39
Azerbaijan	13	13.20
Bahamas	11	14.49
Bahrain	12	12.30
Bangladesh	18	17.50
Barbados	8	10.73
Belarus	9	8.87
Belgium	10	10.86
Belize	17	20.93
Benin	36	40.72
Bhutan	14	15.61
Bolivia	22	18.08
Bosnia and Herzegovina	7	8.31
Botswana	24	19.95
Brazil	11	10.67
Brunei	14	15.98
Bulgaria	9	7.97
Burkina Faso	35	32.71
Burundi	35	34.87
Cambodia	22	18.75
Cameroon	35	35.13
Canada	10	10.11
Cape Verde	15	18.19
Central African Republic	43	32.37
Chad	43	39.85
Chile	11	12.57
China	7	9.7
Colombia	15	15.06
Comoros	29	22.06
Congo DR	42	39.64
Congo	31	31.55
Costa Rica	11	14.03
Cote d'Ivoire	34	27.92
Croatia	9	8.60
Cuba	9	9.99
Cyprus	10	10.37
Czech Republic	11	8.43
Denmark	11	11.25
Djibouti	22	22.03
Dominica	13	13.64
Dominican Republic	18	17.80
Ecuador	17	16.19
Egypt	21	20.48
El Salvador	16	17.49
Equatorial Guinea	30	29.46
Eritrea	29	26.72
Estonia	9	8.48
Eswatini (Swaziland)	24	22.83
Ethiopia	32	29.97
Fiji	19	16.25
Finland	9	10.33
France	11	11.56
Gabon	27	25.89
Gambia	33	28.03
Georgia	12	10.79
Germany	10	9.02
Ghana	28	28.04
Greece	8	7.52
Grenada	16	13.61
Guatemala	21	21.88
Guinea	34	35.47
Guinea-Bissau	31	36.25
Guyana	20	16.74
Haiti	23	20.81
Honduras	21	17.64
Hungary	9	8.58
Iceland	13	12.80
India	20	16.53
Indonesia	16	15.05
Iran	14	14.79
Iraq	27	24.22
Ireland	12	12.08
Israel	20	17.30
Italy	7	7.00
Jamaica	12	15.77
Japan	7	6.90
Jordan	18	22.37
Kazakhstan	23	14.92
Kenya	28	26.01
Kiribati	27	19.92
North Korea	13	14.06
South Korea	5	6.95
Kuwait	12	17.65
Kyrgyzstan	24	19.08
Laos	21	20.35
Latvia	9	8.50
Lebanon	15	12.86
Lesotho	26	23.01
Liberia	31	36.26
Libya	17	20.88
Liechtenstein	9	10.30
Lithuania	9	9.09
Luxembourg	10	11.59
Macedonia		10.33
Madagascar	35	28.14
Malawi	33	27.29
Malaysia	14	14.39
Maldives	13	15.33
Mali	42	40.54
Malta	9	9.59
Marshall Islands	19	21.61
Mauritania	39	27.61
Mauritius	10	9.82
Mexico	15	13.95
Micronesia		18.12
Moldova	11	9.94
Monaco	25	6.61
Mongolia	22	15.37
Montenegro	11	11.04
Morocco	17	17.10
Mozambique	37	36.94
Myanmar	17	16.04
Namibia	27	24.68
Nauru	28	20.71
Nepal	20	17.26
Netherlands	10	10.98
New Zealand	11	12.69
Nicaragua	19	16.30
Niger	45	46.86
Nigeria	37	34.00
Norway	10	11.89
Oman	19	21.62
Pakistan	28	26.01
Palau	15	11.57
Palestine	29
Panama	15	17.71
Papua New Guinea	26	28.54
Paraguay	21	16.15
Peru	17	16.96
Philippines	22	22.17
Poland	9	8.31
Portugal	8	7.99
Qatar	10	9.27
Romania	9	8.63
Russia	10	9.22
Rwanda	30	25.70
Saint Kitts and Nevis		12.06
Saint Lucia	12	11.73
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		12.09
Samoa	29	19.03
San Marino	6	8.88
São Tomé and Príncipe	28	27.43
Saudi Arabia	17	13.90
Senegal	32	30.84
Serbia	9	8.87
Seychelles	17	12.10
Sierra Leone	33	31.49
Singapore	9	8.94
Slovakia	10	8.78
Slovenia	9	8.12
Solomon Islands	30	22.34
Somalia	44	37.71
South Africa	20	18.24
South Sudan	29	37.07
Spain	7	7.12
Sri Lanka	13	13.61
Sudan	34	33.32
Suriname	17	15.17
Sweden	11	10.76
Switzerland	10	10.30
Syria	20	22.19
Taiwan	7	7.33
Tajikistan	27	20.28
Tanzania	36	32.90
Thailand	10	10.04
Timor-Leste	25	30.36
Togo	32	31.39
Tonga	23	20.02
Trinidad and Tobago	11	10.62
Tunisia	16	14.05
Turkey	13	14.04
Turkmenistan	22	17.16
Tuvalu	25	22.34
Uganda	37	40.27
Ukraine	7	8.79
United Arab Emirates	10	10.76
United Kingdom	10	10.80
United States	11	12.21
Uruguay	10	12.65
Uzbekistan	26	15.18
Vanuatu	29	21.19
Venezuela	16	16.99
Vietnam	15	15.29
Western Sahara (Sahrawi)	17
Yemen	30	24.05
Zambia	34	34.48
Zimbabwe	31	32.77
Anguilla (UK)		11.90
Aruba (Netherlands)		11.69
Bermuda (UK)		10.97
British Virgin Islands		10.90
Cayman Islands (UK)		11.62
Guernsey (Channel Islands, UK)		9.73
Jersey (Channel Islands, UK)		12.31
Cook Islands (New Zealand)		12.34
Curacao (Netherlands)		13.07
Faroe Islands (Denmark)		14.94
Gibraltar (UK)		13.84
Greenland (Denmark)		13.66
Guadeloupe (France)	11
Guam (USA)	17	18.33
French Guiana	27
Hong Kong (China)		7.85
Isle of Man (UK)		10.49
Kosovo	15	14.57
Macau (China)		8.82
Martinique (France)	10
Mayotte (France)	34
Montserrat (UK)		10.66
New Caledonia (France)	14	13.96
Northern Mariana Islands (USA)		15.60
French Polynesia	13	13.22
Puerto Rico (USA)	6	7.84
Réunion (France)	16
Saint Barthélemy (France)		9.30
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)		9.33
Saint Martin (France)		13.95
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)		6.54
American Samoa		16.18
Sint Maarten (Netherlands)		12.41
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)		13.24
United States Virgin Islands		11.35
Wallis and Futuna (France)		12.05
Palestine/Gaza Strip		27.20
World (2020)		18.10

Note: There is no data for Christmas Island (Australia), Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia), Falkland Islands (UK), Niue (New Zealand), Norfolk Island (Australia), Pitcairn Islands (UK), Svalbard (Norway), Tokelau (New Zealand) and Vatican City.

References

See also

• List of countries by number of births
• List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate
• List of countries by population growth rate
• Overshoot (population)
• Population pyramid
• Global catastrophic risk