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A 2024 map of countries by fertility rate. This is a list of all sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years.
Fertility rates around the world are dropping quicker than expected, putting the world on track to see a population decline before the end of the century, according to a report from the United ...
March 21, 2024 at 8:01 AM. ... ‘Demographically divided world’ Although fertility rates are declining in all countries, the rate of decline is uneven, creating a shift in the distribution of ...
Last year, South Korea beat its own record for having the world’s lowest birth rate, reporting 0.72 births per woman for 2023, down from 0.78 in 2022. Singapore reported 0.97 births per woman ...
Tokyo is the largest urban agglomeration in the world. [5] As of 2024, the total fertility rate of the world is estimated at 2.25 children per woman, [8] which is slightly below the global average for the replacement fertility rate of approximately 2.33 (as of 2003). [9]
Based on this, the UN projected that the world population, 8 billion as of 2023, would peak around the year 2086 at about 10.4 billion, and then start a slow decline, assuming a continuing decrease in the global average fertility rate from 2.5 births per woman during the 2015–2020 period to 1.8 by the year 2100 (the medium-variant projection).
The World Population Prospects 2024 report from the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs predicts global population growth from 8.2 billion this year to approximately 10.3 billion in ...
The following list sorts countries and dependent territories by their net reproduction rate. The net reproduction rate (R 0) is the number of surviving daughters per woman and an important indicator of the population's reproductive rate.