Countries with the Fewest Children per Woman 2024
About This Dataset
Countries with the Fewest Children per Woman 2024
The twenty countries with the lowest births per woman in 2024, from World Bank figures for the 217 countries that reported that year. Macau records the lowest figure at 0.58, with South Korea (0.75) and Hong Kong (0.84) next. The total fertility rate is the number of children a woman would have if she lived through her childbearing years at the birth rates recorded in that year. It is a snapshot of one year, not a count of the children women have actually had.
Analysis
Macau (0.58), South Korea (0.75) and Hong Kong (0.84) record the three lowest figures. Across the twenty shown, values run from 0.58 up to 1.21, a spread of 0.63. South Korea, the next country up, records 1.29 times the figure for Macau. 16 of the 20 sit within double the lowest figure, 1.16 or less. The chart shows the twenty lowest of 217 reporting countries, so it describes the bottom of the distribution rather than the world average. Countries recorded as zero are left out: the World Bank writes zero where a country did not report.
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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Macau records the lowest in Births per Woman at 0.58 in 2024.
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Average Births per Woman in 2024: 1 · median: 1.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2024 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Births per Woman
- 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 lowest-first, because on this measure a lower number is the better result.
Data Sources & References
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