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2024 list by the United Nations Population Fund [1]; Rank Country Total fertility rate in 2024 (births/woman) 1 Niger 6.6 2 Chad 6.0 3 DR Congo 6.0 4 Somalia 6.0 5 Central African Republic
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 ...
CBR = crude birth rate (per 1000); TFR = total fertility rate (number of children per woman). 1 Number in parentheses represents the wanted fertility rate. Crude birth rate and total fertility rate (wanted fertility rate) 2019–2021 [ 89 ]
The total fertility rate of India in 2017 stood at 2.2. [2] Due to the large population, poverty and strain on resources, the Indian government initiated population control efforts to decrease birth rate with the current target being at 2.1 children per woman. [3]
A 2023 map of countries by fertility rate. Blue indicates negative fertility rates. Red indicates positive rates. The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of ...
according to the United Nations, India now has more people than China, an epochal shift in global demographics that happened sometime in late April. How India’s population exploded to overtake ...
Future projections are based on the 2024 UN's medium-fertility scenario. Chart created by Our World In Data in 2024. The following is a list of countries by past and projected future population. This assumes that countries stay constant in the unforeseeable future, and does not take into account possible border changes.
With longevity trending towards uniform and stable values worldwide, the main driver of future population growth will be the evolution of the fertility rate. [26] Where fertility is high, demographers generally assume that fertility will decline and eventually stabilize at about two children per woman. [3] During the period 2015–2020, the ...