Which country in Africa has the highest birth rate?

The Central African Republic has the highest birth rate in Africa: 46.2 births per 1,000 people (2024). Next come Chad (43.3 births per 1,000 people) and Somalia (42.3 births per 1,000 people).

Which country in Africa has the lowest birth rate?

Mauritius, with 10.3 births per 1,000 people (2024).

What is the typical birth rate of a country in Africa?

The median of the 54 countries in Africa is 30.1 births per 1,000 people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Live births in a year for every 1,000 people living in the country. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Countries in Africa by birth rate

Live births in a year for every 1,000 people living in the country. 54 countries in Africa, highest first. World Bank, 2024

See it on the map

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Highest

46.2

Central African Republic

Median country

30.1

half above, half below

Lowest

10.3

Mauritius

Countries in Africa by birth rate, World Bank, 2024
#	Country	Per 1,000 people	Region
1	Central African Republic	46.2	Middle Africa
2	Chad	43.3	Middle Africa
3	Somalia	42.3	Eastern Africa
4	Niger	41.4	Western Africa
5	DR Congo	40.9	Middle Africa
6	Mali	39.5	Western Africa
7	Angola	37.2	Middle Africa
8	Mozambique	37.0	Eastern Africa
9	Tanzania	34.8	Eastern Africa
10	Uganda	34.4	Eastern Africa
11	Mauritania	34.0	Western Africa
12	Benin	33.4	Western Africa
=13	Cameroon	33.3	Middle Africa
=13	Guinea	33.3	Western Africa
15	Burundi	33.2	Eastern Africa
16	Sudan	33.0	Northern Africa
17	Zambia	32.7	Eastern Africa
18	Nigeria	32.5	Western Africa
19	Togo	32.1	Western Africa
20	Madagascar	31.7	Eastern Africa
21	Côte d'Ivoire	31.6	Western Africa
22	Ethiopia	31.5	Eastern Africa
23	Burkina Faso	31.3	Western Africa
24	Malawi	31.1	Eastern Africa
25	Liberia	30.6	Western Africa
26	Congo	30.4	Middle Africa
27	Sierra Leone	30.1	Western Africa
28	Equatorial Guinea	30.0	Middle Africa
=29	Gambia	29.9	Western Africa
=29	Zimbabwe	29.9	Eastern Africa
31	Guinea-Bissau	29.6	Western Africa
=32	Senegal	29.2	Western Africa
=32	South Sudan	29.2	Eastern Africa
34	Eritrea	28.7	Eastern Africa
35	Comoros	28.2	Eastern Africa
=36	Rwanda	28.1	Eastern Africa
=36	São Tomé and Principe	28.1	Middle Africa
38	Gabon	27.1	Middle Africa
39	Kenya	27.0	Eastern Africa
=40	Ghana	25.9	Western Africa
=40	Namibia	25.9	Southern Africa
42	Botswana	24.4	Southern Africa
43	Lesotho	23.8	Southern Africa
44	Eswatini	23.6	Southern Africa
=45	Djibouti	20.9	Eastern Africa
=45	Egypt	20.9	Northern Africa
47	Algeria	18.8	Northern Africa
48	South Africa	18.5	Southern Africa
49	Libya	16.5	Northern Africa
50	Morocco	16.4	Northern Africa
51	Tunisia	13.4	Northern Africa
52	Cabo Verde	12.2	Western Africa
53	Seychelles	11.0	Eastern Africa
54	Mauritius	10.3	Eastern Africa

Questions

Which country in Africa has the highest birth rate?: The Central African Republic has the highest birth rate in Africa: 46.2 births per 1,000 people (2024). Next come Chad (43.3 births per 1,000 people) and Somalia (42.3 births per 1,000 people).
Which country in Africa has the lowest birth rate?: Mauritius, with 10.3 births per 1,000 people (2024).
What is the typical birth rate of a country in Africa?: The median of the 54 countries in Africa is 30.1 births per 1,000 people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.
Where do the figures come from?: Live births in a year for every 1,000 people living in the country. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.