Fertility Rate (WB)

Fertility Rate. World Bank — World Development Indicators, 2017–2024.

Source: World Bank — World Development Indicators Licence: CC BY 4.0 Unit: births/woman Parsed: 2026-06-28 Open source ↗

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Avg (2024)
2.3
0.00pp vs 2023
Improving
0
of 217 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
217
±0.5pp band

Fertility Rate

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2017–2024.

1.32.233.94.7 20172018201920202021202220232024
AmericasSouth AsiaSub-Saharan AfricaEurope & Central AsiaMiddle East & North AfricaEast Asia & PacificAdvanced / other

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇨🇼 Curacao 1.4 +0.10pp
🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.8 +0.09pp
🇲🇪 Montenegro 1.8 +0.06pp
🇳🇴 Norway 1.5 +0.05pp
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea 4.1 +0.04pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇸🇨 Seychelles 1.9 -0.33pp
🇲🇳 Mongolia 2.5 -0.20pp
🇦🇲 Armenia 1.7 -0.20pp
🇷🇴 Romania 1.4 -0.15pp
🇭🇺 Hungary 1.4 -0.14pp

By group

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South Asia 0.00pp
Middle East & North Africa 0.00pp
East Asia & Pacific 0.00pp
Advanced / other 0.00pp
Americas 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia 0.00pp
Sub-Saharan Africa -0.10pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 4 -0.10pp
South Asia 8 2.4 0.00pp
Middle East & North Africa 20 2.4 0.00pp
East Asia & Pacific 37 2.2 0.00pp
Advanced / other 4 1.8 0.00pp
Americas 43 1.7 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia 57 1.6 0.00pp