Countries in Asia by birth rate

Countries in Asia by birth rate, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	Per 1,000 people	Region
1	Afghanistan	35.0	Southern Asia
2	Yemen	34.4	Western Asia
3	Pakistan	27.4	Southern Asia
=4	Iraq	25.6	Western Asia
=4	Uzbekistan	25.6	Central Asia
6	Tajikistan	25.3	Central Asia
7	Syria	23.2	Western Asia
8	Timor-Leste	21.8	South-Eastern Asia
=9	Laos	20.9	South-Eastern Asia
=9	Turkmenistan	20.9	Central Asia
11	Jordan	20.5	Western Asia
12	Cambodia	20.3	South-Eastern Asia
13	Bangladesh	20.0	Southern Asia
14	Kazakhstan	19.5	Central Asia
15	Kyrgyzstan	19.4	Central Asia
16	Nepal	19.0	Southern Asia
17	Israel	18.6	Western Asia
18	Mongolia	16.9	Eastern Asia
19	Oman	16.8	Western Asia
=20	Myanmar	16.5	South-Eastern Asia
=20	Saudi Arabia	16.5	Western Asia
=22	India	16.0	Southern Asia
=22	Lebanon	16.0	Western Asia
24	Philippines	15.9	South-Eastern Asia
25	Indonesia	15.8	South-Eastern Asia
26	Vietnam	13.4	South-Eastern Asia
27	Brunei	13.3	South-Eastern Asia
28	North Korea	12.9	Eastern Asia
29	Iran	12.6	Southern Asia
30	Bhutan	12.5	Southern Asia
31	Malaysia	12.4	South-Eastern Asia
32	Bahrain	12.0	Western Asia
33	Georgia	11.3	Western Asia
34	Armenia	11.1	Western Asia
35	Turkey	11.0	Western Asia
36	Maldives	10.6	Southern Asia
37	Cyprus	10.5	Western Asia
38	Sri Lanka	10.1	Southern Asia
=39	Azerbaijan	10.0	Western Asia
=39	Kuwait	10.0	Western Asia
41	United Arab Emirates	9.8	Western Asia
42	Qatar	9.5	Western Asia
43	Thailand	8.1	South-Eastern Asia
44	Singapore	7.4	South-Eastern Asia
45	China	6.8	Eastern Asia
46	Japan	5.7	Eastern Asia
47	South Korea	4.7	Eastern Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	Per 1,000 people	Status
Palestine	26.5	Status disputed
Macao	5.3	Territory of China
Hong Kong	4.9	Territory of China

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest birth rate?

Afghanistan has the highest birth rate in Asia: 35.0 births per 1,000 people (2024). Next come Yemen (34.4 births per 1,000 people) and Pakistan (27.4 births per 1,000 people).

Which country in Asia has the lowest birth rate?

South Korea, with 4.7 births per 1,000 people (2024).

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

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 15.9 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.