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Ten Countries/Areas With Highest & Lowest Fertility, 1995-2000

 

Average Number Of Children Per Woman. World Average 2.71
Highest Fertility Lowest Fertility

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10


Yemen

Gaza Strip

Somalia

Uganda

Afghanistan

Niger

Angola

Malawi

Mali

Burkina Faso


7.60

7.30

7.25

7.10

6.90

6.84

6.80

6.75

6.60

6.57


1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10


Spain

Romania

Czech Republic

Italy

Bulgaria

Latvia

Slovenia

Greece

Estonia

Germany


1.15

1.17

1.19

1.20

1.23

1.25

1.26

1.28

1.29

1.30

Countries or areas with 150,000 persons or more in 1995.

 

Table 26: Published in: Population Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat,
The World at Six Billion. (ESA/P/WP.154), 12 October 1999.

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