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Total Fertility Rate, 2019

2019, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 2019 covers 222 countries. Somalia is highest, at 6.5597; South Korea is lowest, at 0.8805. The middle country reads 2.0829. Against 2018, 221 values changed (32 up, 189 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 2019

HighestSomalia

6.5597

LowestSouth Korea

0.8805

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa6.5597
NigerNERWestern Africa6.5370
ChadTCDMiddle Africa6.4118
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa6.2525
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa6.0897
MaliMLIWestern Africa5.8916
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.4423
BurundiBDIEastern Africa5.2713
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia5.2383
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.0165
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa4.9837
BeninBENWestern Africa4.9002
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa4.8660
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa4.8606
UgandaUGAEastern Africa4.7443
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa4.6807
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa4.6515
SudanSDNNorthern Africa4.6169
YemenYEMWestern Asia4.6033
GuineaGINWestern Africa4.5763
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa4.5228
TogoTGOWestern Africa4.4504
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa4.4286
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa4.4175
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa4.3798

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Somalia6.5597
  2. Niger6.5370
  3. Chad6.4118
  4. DR Congo6.2525
  5. Central African Republic6.0897

Lowest

  1. South Korea0.8805
  2. Macau0.9360
  3. British Virgin Islands0.9410
  4. Singapore0.9422
  5. Puerto Rico0.9791

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.0829. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 32 · 189rose · 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 2019.

  • 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 (2019). Total Fertility Rate, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/2019

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 2019?

Somalia, at 6.5597, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 2019 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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