Countries in Asia by fertility rate

Countries in Asia by fertility rate, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	Births per woman	Region
1	Afghanistan	4.76	Southern Asia
2	Yemen	4.50	Western Asia
3	Pakistan	3.55	Southern Asia
4	Uzbekistan	3.49	Central Asia
5	Iraq	3.22	Western Asia
6	Tajikistan	3.04	Central Asia
7	Kazakhstan	2.98	Central Asia
8	Israel	2.87	Western Asia
9	Syria	2.70	Western Asia
10	Turkmenistan	2.66	Central Asia
11	Timor-Leste	2.63	South-Eastern Asia
=12	Jordan	2.60	Western Asia
=12	Kyrgyzstan	2.60	Central Asia
14	Cambodia	2.55	South-Eastern Asia
15	Oman	2.51	Western Asia
16	Mongolia	2.50	Eastern Asia
17	Laos	2.40	South-Eastern Asia
18	Saudi Arabia	2.31	Western Asia
19	Lebanon	2.23	Western Asia
20	Bangladesh	2.14	Southern Asia
21	Indonesia	2.12	South-Eastern Asia
22	Myanmar	2.10	South-Eastern Asia
=23	India	1.96	Southern Asia
=23	Nepal	1.96	Southern Asia
25	Sri Lanka	1.95	Southern Asia
26	Vietnam	1.90	South-Eastern Asia
27	Philippines	1.89	South-Eastern Asia
28	Bahrain	1.81	Western Asia
29	Georgia	1.80	Western Asia
30	North Korea	1.78	Eastern Asia
31	Brunei	1.73	South-Eastern Asia
32	Qatar	1.72	Western Asia
33	Armenia	1.70	Western Asia
34	Iran	1.68	Southern Asia
=35	Kuwait	1.56	Western Asia
=35	Maldives	1.56	Southern Asia
37	Malaysia	1.54	South-Eastern Asia
38	Turkey	1.48	Western Asia
39	Bhutan	1.45	Southern Asia
40	Azerbaijan	1.43	Western Asia
41	Cyprus	1.38	Western Asia
42	United Arab Emirates	1.21	Western Asia
43	Thailand	1.20	South-Eastern Asia
44	Japan	1.15	Eastern Asia
45	China	1.01	Eastern Asia
46	Singapore	0.97	South-Eastern Asia
47	South Korea	0.75	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	Births per woman	Status
Palestine	3.25	Status disputed
Hong Kong	0.84	Territory of China
Macao	0.58	Territory of China

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest fertility rate?

Afghanistan has the highest fertility rate in Asia: 4.76 births per woman (2024). Next come Yemen (4.50 births per woman) and Pakistan (3.55 births per woman).

Which country in Asia has the lowest fertility rate?

South Korea, with 0.75 births per woman (2024).

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

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 1.96 births per woman: 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?

Births per woman: how many children a woman would have if the birth rates of the year held all her life. 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.