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Total Fertility Rate, 2000

2000, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Fertility Rate, 2000 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 7.8286; Macau is lowest, at 0.9328. The middle country reads 2.5979. Against 1999, 221 values changed (57 up, 164 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 2000

HighestNiger

7.8286

LowestMacau

0.9328

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, 2000, 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, 2000: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa7.8286
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa7.6447
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7.5661
ChadTCDMiddle Africa7.2487
MaliMLIWestern Africa6.8865
BurundiBDIEastern Africa6.8715
South SudanSSDEastern Africa6.8028
UgandaUGAEastern Africa6.7876
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa6.7018
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa6.6544
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa6.6391
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa6.5191
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa6.3545
YemenYEMWestern Asia6.3174
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa6.1244
MalawiMWIEastern Africa6.0021
RwandaRWAEastern Africa5.9667
BeninBENWestern Africa5.9374
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia5.9340
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa5.9208
GuineaGINWestern Africa5.9180
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa5.8748
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa5.8509
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa5.8342
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.8296

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger7.8286
  2. Somalia7.6447
  3. Afghanistan7.5661
  4. Chad7.2487
  5. Mali6.8865

Lowest

  1. Macau0.9328
  2. Vatican City1.0000
  3. Hong Kong1.0265
  4. Ukraine1.1085
  5. Czechia1.1464

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.5979. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 57 · 164rose · 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 2000.

  • 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 (2000). Total Fertility Rate, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/2000

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Fertility Rate, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertility rate in Total Fertility Rate, 2000?

Niger, at 7.8286, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Fertility Rate, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Total Fertility Rate, 2000 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Fertility Rate, 2000?

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, 2000 the newest?

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

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