Which country in North America has the highest birth rate?

Haiti has the highest birth rate in North America: 21.9 births per 1,000 people (2024). Next come Honduras (21.6 births per 1,000 people) and Guatemala (20.6 births per 1,000 people).

Which country in North America has the lowest birth rate?

Cuba, with 8.6 births per 1,000 people (2024).

What is the typical birth rate of a country in North America?

The median of the 23 countries in North America is 11.7 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 North America by birth rate

Live births in a year for every 1,000 people living in the country. 23 countries in North America, highest first. World Bank, 2024

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Highest

21.9

Haiti

Median country

11.7

half above, half below

Lowest

8.6

Cuba

Countries in North America by birth rate, World Bank, 2024
#	Country	Per 1,000 people	Region
1	Haiti	21.9	Caribbean
2	Honduras	21.6	Central America
3	Guatemala	20.6	Central America
4	Nicaragua	19.1	Central America
5	Belize	18.1	Central America
6	Dominican Republic	17.6	Caribbean
7	Panama	15.9	Central America
8	El Salvador	15.6	Central America
9	Mexico	15.5	Central America
10	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12.0	Caribbean
=11	Antigua and Barbuda	11.7	Caribbean
=11	Saint Kitts and Nevis	11.7	Caribbean
=13	Grenada	11.5	Caribbean
=13	Jamaica	11.5	Caribbean
15	Saint Lucia	11.2	Caribbean
16	Barbados	11.1	Caribbean
17	Dominica	11.0	Caribbean
18	Bahamas	10.8	Caribbean
19	United States	10.6	Northern America
20	Trinidad and Tobago	10.5	Caribbean
21	Costa Rica	10.0	Central America
22	Canada	8.9	Northern America
23	Cuba	8.6	Caribbean

Territories and other places

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

Place	Per 1,000 people	Status
Saint Martin	15.0	Territory of France
Greenland	12.0	Territory of Denmark
Cayman Islands	11.6	Territory of United Kingdom
US Virgin Islands	11.1	Territory of United States of America
Turks and Caicos Islands	10.5	Territory of United Kingdom
Sint Maarten	9.1	Territory of Netherlands
British Virgin Islands	8.2	Territory of United Kingdom
Bermuda	7.9	Territory of United Kingdom
Aruba	7.6	Territory of Netherlands
Curaçao	7.2	Territory of Netherlands
Puerto Rico	5.7	Territory of United States of America

Questions

Which country in North America has the highest birth rate?: Haiti has the highest birth rate in North America: 21.9 births per 1,000 people (2024). Next come Honduras (21.6 births per 1,000 people) and Guatemala (20.6 births per 1,000 people).
Which country in North America has the lowest birth rate?: Cuba, with 8.6 births per 1,000 people (2024).
What is the typical birth rate of a country in North America?: The median of the 23 countries in North America is 11.7 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.