List of countries by birth rate

With 23 million births per year, India has the highest number of births per year in the world due to its large population and significant fertility rates. India is ahead by a margin from China (8.7 million births per year) due to the low fertility rate of China. More than one million people are born per year in 30 countries, and 10,000 are born per day in eight countries. The Holy See has the lowest number of births, with 2 per year.

With 45.36 yearly births per 1000 people, the Central African Republic has the highest birth rate, followed by Chad, Somalia, Niger, and DR Congo, 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.

29 countries/territories have a birth rate over 30, of which the first 8 and a total of 27 belong to Africa. Afghanistan and Yemen are the remaining ones.

The Holy See (4.30) has the lowest birth rates worldwide, followed by South Korea (4.76). Out of 237 countries/territories projected by the UN, birth rates of 73 countries are below 10.