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Total Fertility Rate, 1959

1959, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 1959 covers 222 countries. Rwanda is highest, at 8.2881; Vatican City is lowest, at 1.0000. The middle country reads 6.1091. Against 1958, 219 values changed (134 up, 85 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 1959

HighestRwanda

8.2881

LowestVatican City

1.0000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Total Fertility Rate, 1959, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Fertility Rate, 1959: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
RwandaRWAEastern Africa8.2881
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia8.0233
YemenYEMWestern Asia7.9837
PalestinePSEWestern Asia7.8045
SamoaWSMPolynesia7.7872
KenyaKENEastern Africa7.6428
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.6160
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa7.6061
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean7.6061
IranIRNSouthern Asia7.5715
NigerNERWestern Africa7.5283
JordanJORWestern Asia7.5118
SyriaSYRWestern Asia7.5062
HondurasHNDCentral America7.4714
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa7.4549
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa7.4539
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia7.4207
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa7.3597
BahrainBHRWestern Asia7.2868
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean7.2840
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7.2759
OmanOMNWestern Asia7.2531
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.2496
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia7.2187
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia7.2032

02In 1959

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Rwanda8.2881
  2. Marshall Islands8.0233
  3. Yemen7.9837
  4. Palestine7.8045
  5. Samoa7.7872

Lowest

  1. Vatican City1.0000
  2. Latvia1.9221
  3. Estonia1.9542
  4. Japan2.0348
  5. Hungary2.0790

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 6.1091. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031958 → 1959

Since 1958

What changed between 1958 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 219values changed, of 222 in both
  • 134 · 85rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1959.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 7.6061. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1959). Total Fertility Rate, 1959 [data set], describing 1959. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/1959

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07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 1959: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 1959?

Rwanda, at 8.2881, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 1959 describe?

1959.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 1959 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 1959?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Total Fertility Rate, 1959 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Total Fertility Rate, 2023.

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