Countries with the Highest Fertility Rates

Source: United Nations (World Population Prospects 2024)

Countries with the Highest Fertility Rates

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Key Findings

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Chad leads in Total Fertility Rate (Children per Woman, 2024) with 5.94.

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Average Total Fertility Rate (Children per Woman, 2024): 5.37 · median: 5.61.

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Gap: Chad is 1.3× larger than Mozambique.

About This Dataset

Countries with the Highest Fertility Rates

The countries with the highest total fertility rate - the average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime - according to the United Nations 2024 World Population Prospects. A rate of about 2.1 is needed to keep a population stable without migration.

Analysis

Chad heads the table on 5.94, ahead of Somalia (5.91) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (5.90) in Total Fertility Rate (Children per Woman, 2024). 1.32 separates the highest figure (5.94) from the lowest (4.62). First and second are separated by 0.03, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Places 3 to 10 are close together, spanning 5.90 to 4.62.

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10 categories · 1 year

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Top Value

5.94

Chad

Total Fertility Rate (Children per Woman, 2024) · All Time

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Total Fertility Rate (Children per Woman, 2024)

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Methodology & source

Data source: United Nations (World Population Prospects 2024)
Coverage: 10 entities · 10 observations
Measure: Total Fertility Rate (Children per Woman, 2024)
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

10 records · Total Fertility Rate (Children per Woman, 2024) · ranked by All Time

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#	Category	All Time
🥇	Chad	5.94
🥈	Somalia	5.91
🥉	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.90
4	Central African Republic	5.81
5	Niger	5.79
6	Mali	5.42
7	Angola	4.95
8	Burundi	4.68
9	Afghanistan	4.66
10	Mozambique	4.62

Data Sources & References

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1 https://population.un.org/wpp/ Visit ↗

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