Which country has more births per woman?
Which country has more births per woman? Compare total fertility rates and build a streak. The range runs from under one to over six, so many pairs are clear once you know the regions, and the close calls come from countries in the middle of the same transition.
How to play
- Two countries appear side by side (stacked on a phone). The first shows its fertility rate; the second keeps its value hidden.
- Decide whether the second one is higher or lower and press Higher or Lower.
- The hidden value counts up and your answer is judged. When you are right, the second card moves across and a new one takes its place.
- One wrong answer ends the run. There is no timer, and values stay fixed for the whole run. Countries without a value for this measure sit out, and two countries whose values read the same are never paired.
- Your result is saved in this browser. Once enough people have played a game, the results also show how your score ranks, and you can copy or share an image of your result, or replay.
Understanding the comparison
Roughly 2.1 births per woman keeps a population steady without migration, and that line splits the map cleanly. Most of Europe and East Asia sit well below it, with South Korea the lowest in the world. The highest rates are concentrated in central and western Africa. Income tracks this more closely than any other measure in these games.
Fertility rate by country: all 195 countries ranked
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World Bank indicator SP.DYN.TFRT.IN for 2024, as used in the game. Values that read the same share a rank. Taiwan and Vatican City have no figure for this measure and sit out.
Frequently asked questions
What fertility rate keeps a population stable?
Roughly 2.1 births per woman keeps a population steady without migration. Most of Europe and East Asia sit well below that level.
Which country has the highest fertility rate?
Chad, at 6.03 (World Bank, 2024).
Which country has the lowest fertility rate?
South Korea, at 0.75 (World Bank, 2024).
Where does the data come from?
The World Bank’s open data, 2024 figures from indicator SP.DYN.TFRT.IN. 195 of the 197 countries in our list have a figure in the game. Taiwan and Vatican City have no figure for this measure and sit out.
Births per woman is not births this year
The total fertility rate combines the period’s age-specific birth rates into a hypothetical lifetime total. It is not simply the number of births divided by the number of women, and it is not a count of children already born to each woman.
Population growth depends on more than this rate. Age structure, deaths and migration matter too, so a lower fertility rate does not automatically mean a population is already shrinking. Read the number as a period measure when making your comparison.
How this measure is defined
The total fertility rate is the number of children a woman would have across her lifetime at the age-specific birth rates of the reference year. It is a synthetic measure for one year, not a count of completed families, and it says nothing on its own about population growth, which also depends on mortality and migration.
Sources
Source: World Bank · Data period: 2024 · Collected: (UTC)
Births a woman would have across her lifetime at the reference year’s age-specific rates. Roughly 2.1 is the level that keeps a population steady without migration.
The collection date tells you when we retrieved the source, not when every underlying observation was made. A failed refresh does not advance that date. For comparisons, the snapshot loaded for your run supplies the answers.
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