Countries with Lowest Fertility Rate (2026)

Macau has the lowest fertility rate in the world at just 0.59 births per woman, far below the 2.1 replacement level. Low fertility leads to aging populations, shrinking workforces, and increased pressure on pension and healthcare systems.

#1

Macau

0.59 births/woman

#2

South Korea

0.72 births/woman

#3

Hong Kong

0.75 births/woman

Countries with Lowest Fertility Rate - 216 countries ranked by Fertility Rate

Rank	Country	Fertility Rate	Population	Region
1	Macau	0.59 births/woman	685,900	Asia
2	South Korea	0.72 births/woman	51,159,889	Asia
3	Hong Kong	0.75 births/woman	7,527,500	Asia
4	Puerto Rico	0.92 births/woman	3,203,295	Americas
5	Singapore	0.97 births/woman	6,110,200	Asia
6	Ukraine	0.98 births/woman	32,862,000	Europe
7	China	1.00 births/woman	1,408,280,000	Asia
8	British Virgin Islands	1.05 births/woman	39,471	Americas
9	Malta	1.06 births/woman	574,250	Europe
10	Andorra	1.08 births/woman	88,406	Europe
11	Spain	1.12 births/woman	49,315,949	Europe
12	San Marino	1.15 births/woman	34,132	Europe
13	Poland	1.16 births/woman	37,392,000	Europe
14	Chile	1.17 births/woman	20,206,953	Americas
15	Lithuania	1.18 births/woman	2,894,886	Europe
16	Japan	1.20 births/woman	123,210,000	Asia
17	Italy	1.20 births/woman	58,927,633	Europe
18	United Arab Emirates	1.20 births/woman	11,294,243	Asia
19	Curaçao	1.20 births/woman	156,115	Americas
20	Thailand	1.21 births/woman	65,859,640	Asia
21	Belarus	1.21 births/woman	9,109,280	Europe
22	Luxembourg	1.25 births/woman	681,973	Europe
23	Canada	1.26 births/woman	41,651,653	Americas
24	Finland	1.26 births/woman	5,650,325	Europe
25	Estonia	1.31 births/woman	1,369,995	Europe
26	Greece	1.32 births/woman	10,400,720	Europe
27	Austria	1.32 births/woman	9,200,931	Europe
28	Switzerland	1.33 births/woman	9,082,848	Europe
29	Costa Rica	1.33 births/woman	5,309,625	Americas
30	Albania	1.35 births/woman	2,363,314	Europe
31	Jamaica	1.36 births/woman	2,825,544	Americas
32	Latvia	1.36 births/woman	1,829,000	Europe
33	Bahamas	1.37 births/woman	398,165	Americas
34	Saint Lucia	1.38 births/woman	184,100	Americas
35	Germany	1.39 births/woman	83,491,249	Europe
36	Cyprus	1.39 births/woman	1,442,614	Europe
37	Mauritius	1.39 births/woman	1,243,741	Africa
38	Norway	1.40 births/woman	5,606,944	Europe
39	Bermuda	1.40 births/woman	64,055	Americas
40	Russia	1.41 births/woman	146,028,325	Europe
41	Uruguay	1.41 births/woman	3,499,451	Americas
42	Netherlands	1.43 births/woman	18,100,436	Europe
43	Portugal	1.44 births/woman	10,749,635	Europe
44	Cuba	1.44 births/woman	9,748,007	Americas
45	Czechia	1.45 births/woman	10,882,341	Europe
46	Sweden	1.45 births/woman	10,605,098	Europe
47	Sint Maarten	1.45 births/woman	41,349	Americas
48	Liechtenstein	1.45 births/woman	40,900	Europe
49	Croatia	1.46 births/woman	3,866,233	Europe
50	Bhutan	1.46 births/woman	784,043	Asia
51	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.46 births/woman	50,828	Americas
52	Belgium	1.47 births/woman	11,825,551	Europe
53	Dominica	1.48 births/woman	67,408	Americas
54	Slovakia	1.49 births/woman	5,413,813	Europe
55	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.49 births/woman	3,422,000	Europe
56	Grenada	1.49 births/woman	109,021	Americas
57	Argentina	1.50 births/woman	46,735,004	Americas
58	Australia	1.50 births/woman	27,536,874	Oceania
59	Denmark	1.50 births/woman	6,011,488	Europe
60	Ireland	1.50 births/woman	5,458,600	Europe
61	North Macedonia	1.50 births/woman	1,822,612	Europe
62	French Polynesia	1.50 births/woman	279,500	Oceania
63	Turkey	1.51 births/woman	85,664,944	Asia
64	Hungary	1.51 births/woman	9,539,502	Europe
65	Slovenia	1.51 births/woman	2,130,638	Europe
66	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.51 births/woman	51,320	Americas
67	Kuwait	1.52 births/woman	4,881,254	Asia
68	Cape Verde	1.52 births/woman	491,233	Africa
69	Trinidad and Tobago	1.53 births/woman	1,367,764	Americas
70	Cayman Islands	1.53 births/woman	84,738	Americas
71	Malaysia	1.55 births/woman	34,231,700	Asia
72	Azerbaijan	1.55 births/woman	10,241,722	Asia
73	Kosovo	1.55 births/woman	1,585,566	Europe
74	Isle of Man	1.55 births/woman	84,530	Europe
75	United Kingdom	1.56 births/woman	69,281,437	Europe
76	New Zealand	1.56 births/woman	5,324,700	Oceania
77	Maldives	1.58 births/woman	515,132	Asia
78	Antigua and Barbuda	1.58 births/woman	103,603	Americas
79	Iceland	1.59 births/woman	391,810	Europe
80	Aruba	1.60 births/woman	107,566	Americas
81	Serbia	1.61 births/woman	6,567,783	Europe
82	United States	1.62 births/woman	340,110,988	Americas
83	Brazil	1.62 births/woman	213,421,037	Americas
84	Colombia	1.65 births/woman	53,057,212	Americas
85	France	1.66 births/woman	66,351,959	Europe
86	Iran	1.70 births/woman	85,961,000	Asia
87	Romania	1.71 births/woman	19,036,031	Europe
88	Barbados	1.71 births/woman	267,800	Americas
89	Qatar	1.73 births/woman	3,173,024	Asia
90	Moldova	1.73 births/woman	2,749,076	Europe
91	Montenegro	1.74 births/woman	623,327	Europe
92	Brunei	1.75 births/woman	455,500	Asia
93	Greenland	1.77 births/woman	56,542	Americas
94	North Korea	1.78 births/woman	25,950,000	Asia
95	El Salvador	1.78 births/woman	6,029,976	Americas
96	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.78 births/woman	110,872	Americas
97	Bulgaria	1.81 births/woman	6,437,360	Europe
98	Georgia	1.81 births/woman	4,000,921	Asia
99	Ecuador	1.82 births/woman	18,103,660	Americas
100	Bahrain	1.82 births/woman	1,594,654	Asia
101	Tunisia	1.83 births/woman	11,972,169	Africa
102	Faroe Islands	1.86 births/woman	54,885	Europe
103	Gibraltar	1.89 births/woman	38,000	Europe
104	Armenia	1.90 births/woman	3,076,200	Asia
105	Mexico	1.91 births/woman	130,575,786	Americas
106	Vietnam	1.91 births/woman	101,343,800	Asia
107	Palau	1.91 births/woman	16,733	Oceania
108	Philippines	1.92 births/woman	114,123,600	Asia
109	Sri Lanka	1.97 births/woman	21,763,170	Asia
110	India	1.98 births/woman	1,417,492,000	Asia
111	Peru	1.98 births/woman	34,350,244	Americas
112	Nepal	1.98 births/woman	29,911,840	Asia
113	New Caledonia	1.98 births/woman	264,596	Oceania
114	United States Virgin Islands	1.98 births/woman	87,146	Americas
115	Belize	2.01 births/woman	417,634	Americas
116	Seychelles	2.02 births/woman	122,729	Africa
117	Venezuela	2.08 births/woman	28,517,000	Americas
118	Monaco	2.11 births/woman	38,423	Europe
119	Myanmar	2.12 births/woman	51,316,756	Asia
120	Panama	2.12 births/woman	4,064,780	Americas
121	Indonesia	2.13 births/woman	284,438,782	Asia
122	Bangladesh	2.16 births/woman	169,828,911	Asia
123	South Africa	2.22 births/woman	63,100,945	Africa
124	Nicaragua	2.22 births/woman	6,803,886	Americas
125	Morocco	2.23 births/woman	36,828,330	Africa
126	Dominican Republic	2.24 births/woman	10,771,504	Americas
127	Lebanon	2.24 births/woman	5,490,000	Asia
128	Suriname	2.25 births/woman	616,500	Americas
129	Saudi Arabia	2.28 births/woman	35,300,280	Asia
130	Fiji	2.28 births/woman	900,869	Oceania
131	American Samoa	2.29 births/woman	49,710	Oceania
132	Guatemala	2.31 births/woman	18,079,810	Americas
133	Northern Mariana Islands	2.35 births/woman	47,329	Oceania
134	Libya	2.36 births/woman	7,459,000	Africa
135	Guyana	2.41 births/woman	772,975	Americas
136	Laos	2.42 births/woman	7,647,000	Asia
137	Paraguay	2.42 births/woman	6,109,644	Americas
138	Honduras	2.50 births/woman	9,892,632	Americas
139	Oman	2.53 births/woman	5,343,630	Asia
140	Bolivia	2.55 births/woman	11,365,333	Americas
141	Cambodia	2.58 births/woman	17,577,760	Asia
142	Djibouti	2.61 births/woman	1,066,809	Africa
143	Jordan	2.64 births/woman	11,734,000	Asia
144	Haiti	2.66 births/woman	11,867,032	Americas
145	Turkmenistan	2.69 births/woman	7,057,841	Asia
146	Lesotho	2.69 births/woman	2,116,427	Africa
147	Kyrgyzstan	2.70 births/woman	7,281,800	Asia
148	Mongolia	2.70 births/woman	3,544,835	Asia
149	Syria	2.71 births/woman	25,620,000	Asia
150	Timor-Leste	2.71 births/woman	1,391,221	Asia
151	Saint Martin	2.72 births/woman	31,496	Americas
152	Botswana	2.73 births/woman	2,359,609	Africa
153	Egypt	2.75 births/woman	107,271,260	Africa
154	Eswatini	2.75 births/woman	1,235,549	Africa
155	Micronesia	2.75 births/woman	105,564	Oceania
156	Algeria	2.77 births/woman	47,400,000	Africa
157	Guam	2.78 births/woman	153,836	Oceania
158	Israel	2.85 births/woman	10,134,800	Asia
159	Marshall Islands	2.92 births/woman	42,418	Oceania
160	Kazakhstan	3.01 births/woman	20,426,568	Asia
161	Tajikistan	3.07 births/woman	10,499,000	Asia
162	Papua New Guinea	3.10 births/woman	11,781,559	Oceania
163	Tonga	3.13 births/woman	100,179	Oceania
164	Kiribati	3.15 births/woman	120,740	Oceania
165	Kenya	3.21 births/woman	53,330,978	Africa
166	Namibia	3.21 births/woman	3,022,401	Africa
167	Tuvalu	3.21 births/woman	10,643	Oceania
168	Iraq	3.25 births/woman	46,118,793	Asia
169	Palestine	3.31 births/woman	5,483,450	Asia
170	Nauru	3.33 births/woman	11,680	Oceania
171	Ghana	3.40 births/woman	33,742,380	Africa
172	Uzbekistan	3.50 births/woman	37,859,698	Asia
173	Solomon Islands	3.56 births/woman	750,325	Oceania
174	Vanuatu	3.60 births/woman	321,409	Oceania
175	Pakistan	3.61 births/woman	241,499,431	Asia
176	São Tomé and Príncipe	3.64 births/woman	209,607	Africa
177	Malawi	3.65 births/woman	20,734,262	Africa
178	Gabon	3.65 births/woman	2,469,296	Africa
179	Rwanda	3.70 births/woman	14,104,969	Africa
180	Eritrea	3.71 births/woman	3,607,000	Africa
181	Zimbabwe	3.72 births/woman	17,073,087	Africa
182	Sierra Leone	3.79 births/woman	9,077,691	Africa
183	Senegal	3.82 births/woman	18,593,258	Africa
184	Samoa	3.83 births/woman	205,557	Oceania
185	Guinea-Bissau	3.84 births/woman	1,781,308	Africa
186	South Sudan	3.86 births/woman	15,786,898	Africa
187	Comoros	3.88 births/woman	919,901	Africa
188	Liberia	3.95 births/woman	5,248,621	Africa
189	Madagascar	3.97 births/woman	31,727,042	Africa
190	Ethiopia	3.99 births/woman	111,652,998	Africa
191	Gambia	4.01 births/woman	2,422,712	Africa
192	Equatorial Guinea	4.08 births/woman	1,668,768	Africa
193	Zambia	4.10 births/woman	19,693,423	Africa
194	Republic of the Congo	4.16 births/woman	6,142,180	Africa
195	Burkina Faso	4.19 births/woman	24,070,553	Africa
196	Togo	4.19 births/woman	8,095,498	Africa
197	Guinea	4.22 births/woman	14,363,931	Africa
198	Uganda	4.28 births/woman	45,905,417	Africa
199	Ivory Coast	4.28 births/woman	31,719,275	Africa
200	Sudan	4.32 births/woman	51,662,000	Africa
201	Cameroon	4.32 births/woman	29,442,327	Africa
202	Nigeria	4.48 births/woman	223,800,000	Africa
203	Benin	4.56 births/woman	13,224,860	Africa
204	Yemen	4.59 births/woman	32,684,503	Asia
205	Tanzania	4.61 births/woman	68,153,004	Africa
206	Mauritania	4.70 births/woman	4,927,532	Africa
207	Mozambique	4.76 births/woman	34,090,466	Africa
208	Afghanistan	4.84 births/woman	43,844,000	Asia
209	Burundi	4.88 births/woman	12,332,788	Africa
210	Angola	5.12 births/woman	36,170,961	Africa
211	Mali	5.61 births/woman	22,395,489	Africa
212	Central African Republic	6.01 births/woman	6,470,307	Africa
213	DR Congo	6.05 births/woman	112,832,000	Africa
214	Niger	6.06 births/woman	26,312,034	Africa
215	Chad	6.12 births/woman	19,340,757	Africa
216	Somalia	6.13 births/woman	19,655,000	Africa