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Total Fertility Rate, 2018

2018, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 2018 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 6.7055; British Virgin Islands is lowest, at 0.9054. The middle country reads 2.1177. Against 2017, 218 values changed (31 up, 187 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 2018

HighestNiger

6.7055

LowestBritish Virgin Islands

0.9054

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa6.7055
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa6.6619
ChadTCDMiddle Africa6.4638
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa6.3018
MaliMLIWestern Africa6.1176
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa6.1076
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.5187
BurundiBDIEastern Africa5.3800
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia5.3275
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.0705
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa5.0444
BeninBENWestern Africa5.0306
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa5.0213
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa4.9324
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa4.9214
UgandaUGAEastern Africa4.8670
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa4.7397
SudanSDNNorthern Africa4.6813
GuineaGINWestern Africa4.6689
YemenYEMWestern Asia4.6067
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa4.5956
TogoTGOWestern Africa4.5131
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa4.5129
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa4.4917
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa4.4417

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger6.7055
  2. Somalia6.6619
  3. Chad6.4638
  4. DR Congo6.3018
  5. Mali6.1176

Lowest

  1. British Virgin Islands0.9054
  2. Macau0.9240
  3. Singapore0.9476
  4. South Korea0.9512
  5. Vatican City1.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.1177. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 218values changed, of 222 in both
  • 31 · 187rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

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 2018.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 6 decimals. 2 countries share 2.3474. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 (2018). Total Fertility Rate, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/2018

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 2018?

Niger, at 6.7055, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 2018 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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