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Total Fertility Rate, 2020

2020, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 2020 covers 222 countries. Somalia is highest, at 6.4527; South Korea is lowest, at 0.8121. The middle country reads 2.0307. Against 2019, 221 values changed (31 up, 190 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 2020

HighestSomalia

6.4527

LowestSouth Korea

0.8121

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa6.4527
NigerNERWestern Africa6.3685
ChadTCDMiddle Africa6.3464
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa6.2057
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa6.0587
MaliMLIWestern Africa5.8500
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.3711
BurundiBDIEastern Africa5.1766
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia5.1453
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa4.9590
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa4.9122
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa4.8008
BeninBENWestern Africa4.7951
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa4.7000
UgandaUGAEastern Africa4.6211
YemenYEMWestern Asia4.6000
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa4.5566
SudanSDNNorthern Africa4.5419
GuineaGINWestern Africa4.4889
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa4.4614
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa4.4400
TogoTGOWestern Africa4.3863
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa4.3463
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa4.3295
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa4.3232

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Somalia6.4527
  2. Niger6.3685
  3. Chad6.3464
  4. DR Congo6.2057
  5. Central African Republic6.0587

Lowest

  1. South Korea0.8121
  2. Macau0.8566
  3. Hong Kong0.8916
  4. Puerto Rico0.9344
  5. Singapore0.9419

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.0307. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 31 · 190rose · 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 2020.

  • 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 (2020). Total Fertility Rate, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/2020

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 2020?

Somalia, at 6.4527, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 2020 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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