Total Fertility Rate by Country in 2003

In the year 2003, the world had a total fertility rate of 2.6471 (births per woman).

The country with the highest total fertility rate was 🇳🇪Niger with a rate of 7.654 births per woman. Closely followed by 🇸🇴Somalia with a fertility rate of 7.5474 births per woman, and 🇦🇫Afghanistan with 7.2199 child born per woman.

The country with the lowest annual fertility rate was 🇲🇴China, Macao SAR with 0.7922 births per woman. Followed by 🇭🇰China, Hong Kong SAR with a fertility rate of 0.9027 births per woman, and 🇻🇦Holy See with 1.0108 child born per woman.

The geographic region with the highest total fertility rate was Africa with a rate of 5.0573 births per woman. Closely followed by Oceania with a fertility rate of 2.4447 births per woman, and Asia with 2.4428 child born per woman.

When devided into sub-subregions we can see that Middle Africa had the highest total fertility rate of 6.3471 births per woman. Closely followed by Western Africa with a fertility rate of 5.9506 births per woman, and Eastern Africa with 5.7641 child born per woman.

If we devide the global population into income groups we can see that Low-income countries has the highest total fertility rate of 5.8422 children born per woman. While the lowest total fertility rate is recorded by High-income countries with a TFR of only 1.6671.