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Total Fertility Rate, 2003

2003, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 2003 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 7.7894; Macau is lowest, at 0.7982. The middle country reads 2.4740. Against 2002, 221 values changed (52 up, 169 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 2003

HighestNiger

7.7894

LowestMacau

0.7982

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, 2003, 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, 2003: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa7.7894
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.6027
ChadTCDMiddle Africa7.1788
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7.1735
BurundiBDIEastern Africa6.7855
MaliMLIWestern Africa6.7832
UgandaUGAEastern Africa6.6714
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa6.5491
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa6.5332
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa6.3996
South SudanSSDEastern Africa6.3532
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa6.2803
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa6.1000
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa6.0866
MalawiMWIEastern Africa5.8752
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia5.8461
YemenYEMWestern Asia5.8386
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa5.7986
BeninBENWestern Africa5.7630
GuineaGINWestern Africa5.7441
RwandaRWAEastern Africa5.7370
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa5.7095
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa5.6754
GambiaGMBWestern Africa5.6563
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.5998

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger7.7894
  2. Somalia7.6027
  3. Chad7.1788
  4. Afghanistan7.1735
  5. Burundi6.7855

Lowest

  1. Macau0.7982
  2. Hong Kong0.9044
  3. Vatican City1.0000
  4. Singapore1.0811
  5. Ukraine1.1730

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.4740. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 52 · 169rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 2003.

  • 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 (2003). Total Fertility Rate, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/2003

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 2003?

Niger, at 7.7894, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 2003 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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