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Total Fertility Rate, 2006

2006, 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, 2006 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 7.7444; Macau is lowest, at 0.9203. The middle country reads 2.4590. Against 2005, 221 values changed (88 up, 133 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 2006

HighestNiger

7.7444

LowestMacau

0.9203

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa7.7444
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.4897
ChadTCDMiddle Africa7.1179
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia6.6860
MaliMLIWestern Africa6.6768
BurundiBDIEastern Africa6.6589
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa6.5470
UgandaUGAEastern Africa6.4287
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa6.4195
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa6.1703
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa6.0530
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa6.0469
South SudanSSDEastern Africa5.8532
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa5.8405
MalawiMWIEastern Africa5.8022
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa5.7373
GambiaGMBWestern Africa5.7360
GuineaGINWestern Africa5.7040
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa5.6786
BeninBENWestern Africa5.6734
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa5.5303
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa5.5109
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa5.4980
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia5.4736
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.4519

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger7.7444
  2. Somalia7.4897
  3. Chad7.1179
  4. Afghanistan6.6860
  5. Mali6.6768

Lowest

  1. Macau0.9203
  2. Hong Kong0.9874
  3. Vatican City1.0000
  4. Singapore1.0685
  5. Taiwan1.1183

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.4590. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 88 · 133rose · 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 2006.

  • 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 (2006). Total Fertility Rate, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/2006

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