Countries with the Most Children per Woman 2023

Source: World Bank

Countries with the Most Children per Woman 2023

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Key Findings

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Somalia leads in Births per Woman with 6.13 in 2023.

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Average Births per Woman in 2023: 5.00 · median: 4.73.

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Gap in 2023: Somalia is 1.5× larger than Guinea.

About This Dataset

Countries with the Most Children per Woman 2023

Countries ranked by births per woman in 2023, using World Bank figures for the 217 countries that reported that year. Somalia leads on 6.13, ahead of Chad (6.12) and Niger (6.06). 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

Somalia (6.13), Chad (6.12) and Niger (6.06) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 6.13 down to 4.22, a spread of 1.91. Only 0.01 separates Somalia from Chad in second, 0.2% of the leading figure. Somalia stood at 6.26 in 2022, so its figure fell by 0.13 over the year. Somalia also came first in 2022. Of the 20 in this table that also reported in 2022, 0 recorded a higher figure than the year before and 19 a lower one. The largest single move was Somalia, from 6.26 to 6.13. The chart shows the twenty highest of 217 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.

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Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points

20 categories · 1 year

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Top Value

6.13

Somalia

Births per Woman · 2023

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Births per Woman

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2023

Single year snapshot

Methodology & source

Data source: World Bank
Coverage: 20 entities · 2023 · 20 observations
Measure: Births per Woman
Last updated: 7 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.

Rankings & Full Data

20 records · Births per Woman · ranked by 2023

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#	Category	2023
🥇	Somalia	6.13
🥈	Chad	6.12
🥉	Niger	6.06
4	DR Congo	6.05
5	Central African Republic	6.01
6	Mali	5.61
7	Angola	5.12
8	Burundi	4.88
9	Afghanistan	4.84
10	Mozambique	4.76
11	Mauritania	4.70
12	Tanzania	4.61
13	Yemen	4.59
14	Benin	4.56
15	Nigeria	4.48
16	Sudan	4.32
17	Cameroon	4.32
18	Cote d'Ivoire	4.28
19	Uganda	4.28
20	Guinea	4.22

Data Sources & References

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1 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN Visit ↗

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