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Total Fertility Rate, 2017

2017, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 2017 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 6.8741; British Virgin Islands is lowest, at 0.8733. The middle country reads 2.1635. Against 2016, 221 values changed (26 up, 195 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 2017

HighestNiger

6.8741

LowestBritish Virgin Islands

0.8733

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa6.8741
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa6.7663
ChadTCDMiddle Africa6.5371
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa6.3485
MaliMLIWestern Africa6.2514
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa6.1272
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.6001
BurundiBDIEastern Africa5.4814
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia5.4326
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa5.1819
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa5.1697
BeninBENWestern Africa5.1554
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.1278
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa5.1059
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa4.9880
UgandaUGAEastern Africa4.9875
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa4.8044
GuineaGINWestern Africa4.7927
SudanSDNNorthern Africa4.7614
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa4.7573
GambiaGMBWestern Africa4.6143
YemenYEMWestern Asia4.6100
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa4.5989
TogoTGOWestern Africa4.5762
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa4.5672

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger6.8741
  2. Somalia6.7663
  3. Chad6.5371
  4. DR Congo6.3485
  5. Mali6.2514

Lowest

  1. British Virgin Islands0.8733
  2. Singapore0.9360
  3. Vatican City1.0000
  4. Macau1.0190
  5. South Korea1.0351

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.1635. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 26 · 195rose · 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 2017.

  • 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 (2017). Total Fertility Rate, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/2017

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Other years

07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 2017?

Niger, at 6.8741, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 2017 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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