Which country in Oceania has the highest birth rate?

Vanuatu has the highest birth rate in Oceania: 27.7 births per 1,000 people (2024). Next come the Solomon Islands (26.7 births per 1,000 people) and Kiribati (25.3 births per 1,000 people).

Which country in Oceania has the lowest birth rate?

Palau, with 10.7 births per 1,000 people (2024).

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

The median of the 13 countries in Oceania is 23.0 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 Oceania by birth rate

Live births in a year for every 1,000 people living in the country. 13 countries in Oceania, highest first. World Bank, 2024

See it on the map

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Highest

27.7

Vanuatu

Median country

23.0

half above, half below

Lowest

10.7

Palau

Countries in Oceania by birth rate, World Bank, 2024
#	Country	Per 1,000 people	Region
1	Vanuatu	27.7	Melanesia
2	Solomon Islands	26.7	Melanesia
3	Kiribati	25.3	Micronesia
4	Samoa	25.0	Polynesia
5	Nauru	24.6	Micronesia
6	Papua New Guinea	24.3	Melanesia
7	Tonga	23.0	Polynesia
8	Micronesia	22.3	Micronesia
9	Marshall Islands	20.1	Micronesia
10	Fiji	17.9	Melanesia
11	New Zealand	11.0	Australia and New Zealand
=12	Australia	10.7	Australia and New Zealand
=12	Palau	10.7	Micronesia

Territories and other places

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

Place	Per 1,000 people	Status
Guam	17.3	Territory of United States of America
American Samoa	15.0	Territory of United States of America
New Caledonia	14.0	Territory of France
Northern Mariana Islands	12.1	Territory of United States of America
French Polynesia	10.7	Territory of France

Questions

Which country in Oceania has the highest birth rate?: Vanuatu has the highest birth rate in Oceania: 27.7 births per 1,000 people (2024). Next come the Solomon Islands (26.7 births per 1,000 people) and Kiribati (25.3 births per 1,000 people).
Which country in Oceania has the lowest birth rate?: Palau, with 10.7 births per 1,000 people (2024).
What is the typical birth rate of a country in Oceania?: The median of the 13 countries in Oceania is 23.0 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.