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Total Fertility Rate, 1965

1965, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The total fertility rate is the number of children a woman would have over her lifetime if, at each age, she had children at the rate women of that age did in the year measured. It is the standard measure of how many children a society is having, because unlike a birth rate it does not depend on how many women happen to be of childbearing age.

Total Fertility Rate, 1965 covers 222 countries. Rwanda is highest, at 8.2488; Vatican City is lowest, at 1.0000. The middle country reads 6.0032. Against 1964, 220 values changed (75 up, 145 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 1965

HighestRwanda

8.2488

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, 1965, 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, 1965: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
RwandaRWAEastern Africa8.2488
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia8.1564
YemenYEMWestern Asia8.1005
JordanJORWestern Asia7.9320
KenyaKENEastern Africa7.9233
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa7.8406
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa7.8228
PalestinePSEWestern Asia7.7745
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa7.7105
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.6578
SamoaWSMPolynesia7.6532
SyriaSYRWestern Asia7.5318
NigerNERWestern Africa7.4659
HondurasHNDCentral America7.4424
OmanOMNWestern Asia7.3911
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia7.3765
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia7.3144
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7.3053
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.2614
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa7.2313
South SudanSSDEastern Africa7.2222
IranIRNSouthern Asia7.2220
SenegalSENWestern Africa7.1900
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa7.1713
MalawiMWIEastern Africa7.1258

02In 1965

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Rwanda8.2488
  2. Marshall Islands8.1564
  3. Yemen8.1005
  4. Jordan7.9320
  5. Kenya7.9233

Lowest

  1. Vatican City1.0000
  2. Latvia1.7289
  3. Hungary1.8202
  4. Estonia1.8988
  5. Romania1.9031

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 6.0032. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031964 → 1965

Since 1964

What changed between 1964 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 220values changed, of 222 in both
  • 75 · 145rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

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 1965.

  • 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 (1965). Total Fertility Rate, 1965 [data set], describing 1965. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/1965

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