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Total Fertility Rate, 1956

1956, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 1956 covers 222 countries. Rwanda is highest, at 8.2313; Vatican City is lowest, at 1.0000. The middle country reads 6.0635. Against 1955, 219 values changed (137 up, 82 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 1956

HighestRwanda

8.2313

LowestVatican City

1.0000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Total Fertility Rate, 1956, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Fertility Rate, 1956: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
RwandaRWAEastern Africa8.2313
YemenYEMWestern Asia7.9652
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia7.9174
PalestinePSEWestern Asia7.8146
SamoaWSMPolynesia7.7341
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean7.6751
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa7.5969
SyriaSYRWestern Asia7.5935
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.5866
NigerNERWestern Africa7.5422
KenyaKENEastern Africa7.5132
HondurasHNDCentral America7.5076
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia7.4475
JordanJORWestern Asia7.4412
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa7.3915
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa7.3583
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean7.3405
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa7.2890
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7.2688
BahrainBHRWestern Asia7.2660
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.2505
IranIRNSouthern Asia7.2491
OmanOMNWestern Asia7.2260
PalauPLWMicronesia7.1669
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia7.1539

02In 1956

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Rwanda8.2313
  2. Yemen7.9652
  3. Marshall Islands7.9174
  4. Palestine7.8146
  5. Samoa7.7341

Lowest

  1. Vatican City1.0000
  2. Latvia1.8369
  3. Estonia1.9728
  4. Isle of Man2.0714
  5. Luxembourg2.1033

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 6.0635. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031955 → 1956

Since 1955

What changed between 1955 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 219values changed, of 222 in both
  • 137 · 82rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1956.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1956). Total Fertility Rate, 1956 [data set], describing 1956. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/1956

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07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 1956: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 1956?

Rwanda, at 8.2313, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 1956 describe?

1956.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 1956 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 1956?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Total Fertility Rate, 1956 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Total Fertility Rate, 2023.

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