World Fertility Rate (1950-2025)

World fertility rate for 2025 is 2.40, a 0.37% decline from 2024.
  • World fertility rate for 2024 was 2.41, a 9.75% increase from 2023.
  • World fertility rate for 2023 was 2.20, a 0.87% decline from 2022.
  • World fertility rate for 2022 was 2.22, a 1.36% decline from 2021.
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year.