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Total Fertility Rate, 1996

1996, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 1996 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 7.7804; Vatican City is lowest, at 1.0000. The middle country reads 2.8554. Against 1995, 221 values changed (39 up, 182 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 1996

HighestNiger

7.7804

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa7.7804
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7.7572
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.6212
South SudanSSDEastern Africa7.3208
ChadTCDMiddle Africa7.2922
BurundiBDIEastern Africa7.1234
MaliMLIWestern Africa7.0102
YemenYEMWestern Asia7.0037
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa6.9276
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa6.8506
UgandaUGAEastern Africa6.8349
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa6.7793
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa6.6724
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa6.5521
RwandaRWAEastern Africa6.2886
MalawiMWIEastern Africa6.2848
BeninBENWestern Africa6.2795
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa6.2172
GuineaGINWestern Africa6.2054
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa6.1821
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa6.1412
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa6.1293
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa6.0311
PalestinePSEWestern Asia5.9882
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.9729

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger7.7804
  2. Afghanistan7.7572
  3. Somalia7.6212
  4. South Sudan7.3208
  5. Chad7.2922

Lowest

  1. Vatican City1.0000
  2. Spain1.1394
  3. Latvia1.1610
  4. Czechia1.1851
  5. Italy1.1972

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.8554. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 39 · 182rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1996.

  • 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 (1996). Total Fertility Rate, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/1996

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 1996?

Niger, at 7.7804, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 1996 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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