Countries in Europe by fertility rate

Countries in Europe by fertility rate, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	Births per woman	Region
1	Monaco	2.10	Western Europe
2	Montenegro	1.80	Southern Europe
3	Moldova	1.73	Eastern Europe
4	Bulgaria	1.72	Eastern Europe
5	Serbia	1.64	Southern Europe
6	France	1.61	Western Europe
7	Iceland	1.56	Northern Europe
8	United Kingdom	1.55	Northern Europe
9	Slovenia	1.52	Southern Europe
10	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.49	Southern Europe
=11	Denmark	1.47	Northern Europe
=11	Ireland	1.47	Northern Europe
=13	Croatia	1.46	Southern Europe
=13	Slovakia	1.46	Eastern Europe
15	Norway	1.45	Northern Europe
16	Belgium	1.44	Western Europe
=17	Netherlands	1.43	Western Europe
=17	Sweden	1.43	Northern Europe
19	Russia	1.42	Eastern Europe
=20	Hungary	1.41	Eastern Europe
=20	Portugal	1.41	Southern Europe
22	North Macedonia	1.40	Southern Europe
23	Romania	1.39	Eastern Europe
24	Liechtenstein	1.37	Western Europe
=25	Czechia	1.36	Eastern Europe
=25	Germany	1.36	Western Europe
27	Albania	1.34	Southern Europe
28	Austria	1.31	Western Europe
29	Switzerland	1.29	Western Europe
=30	Finland	1.25	Northern Europe
=30	Luxembourg	1.25	Western Europe
=32	Greece	1.24	Southern Europe
=32	Latvia	1.24	Northern Europe
34	Belarus	1.22	Eastern Europe
=35	Estonia	1.18	Northern Europe
=35	Italy	1.18	Southern Europe
37	San Marino	1.16	Southern Europe
38	Poland	1.14	Eastern Europe
39	Lithuania	1.11	Northern Europe
40	Spain	1.10	Southern Europe
41	Andorra	1.09	Southern Europe
42	Malta	1.01	Southern Europe
43	Ukraine	0.99	Eastern Europe

No World Bank figure for Vatican City.

Territories and other places

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

Place	Births per woman	Status
Faroe Islands	1.91	Territory of Denmark
Isle of Man	1.54	Territory of United Kingdom

Questions

Which country in Europe has the highest fertility rate?

Monaco has the highest fertility rate in Europe: 2.10 births per woman (2024). Next come Montenegro (1.80 births per woman) and Moldova (1.73 births per woman).

Which country in Europe has the lowest fertility rate?

Ukraine, with 0.99 births per woman (2024).

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

The median of the 43 countries in Europe is 1.40 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.