List of countries by birth rate

With 23 mn birth per year, India has the highest number of birth per year in the world due to large populations and significant fertility rates. India is ahead by a margin from China (10.6 mn births per year) due to the low fertility rate of China. More than one million people are born per year in 28 countries and 10,000 born per day in eight countries. Niue have the lowest number of 27 births per year.

With 44.46 yearly births per 1000 people, Niger has the highest birth rate, followed by Central African Republic, Chad, Somalia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali, having figures above 40 births. The crude birth rate refers to the number of births over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is usually expressed in units of births per 1,000 individuals per year.

Twenty-eight countries/territories have a birth rate over 30, of which the first 13 and a total of 27 belong to Africa. Afghanistan is the remaining one.

Hong Kong (5.43) has the lowest birth rates worldwide, followed by South Korea (5.62). Out of 236 countries/territories projected by the UN, birth rates of 57 countries have below 10.

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Birth rate (UN)