demographics
Fertility Rate
Average number of children born per woman over her lifetime. The replacement-level fertility rate is 2.1.
WLDTier 1 SourceVerified Mar 2026
Fertility Rate
Official value (2023): 2
Fertility Rate growth (2014–2023)
-12.8%·in time period
2014: 2.518 births per woman, 2015: 2.49 births per woman, 2016: 2.491 births per woman, 2017: 2.46 births per woman, 2018: 2.392 births per woman, 2019: 2.353 births per woman, 2020: 2.276 births per woman, 2021: 2.246 births per woman, 2022: 2.215 births per woman, 2023: 2.196 births per woman
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