Which country in North America has the highest fertility rate?

Haiti has the highest fertility rate in North America: 2.63 births per woman (2024). Next come Honduras (2.48 births per woman) and Guatemala (2.29 births per woman).

Which country in North America has the lowest fertility rate?

Canada, with 1.25 births per woman (2024).

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

The median of the 23 countries in North America is 1.63 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.

Countries in North America by fertility rate

Births per woman: how many children a woman would have if the birth rates of the year held all her life. 23 countries in North America, highest first. World Bank, 2024

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Highest

2.63

Haiti

Median country

1.63

half above, half below

Lowest

1.25

Canada

Countries in North America by fertility rate, World Bank, 2024
#	Country	Births per woman	Region
1	Haiti	2.63	Caribbean
2	Honduras	2.48	Central America
3	Guatemala	2.29	Central America
4	Dominican Republic	2.22	Caribbean
5	Nicaragua	2.21	Central America
6	Panama	2.11	Central America
7	Belize	2.02	Central America
8	Mexico	1.89	Central America
9	El Salvador	1.77	Central America
10	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.76	Caribbean
11	Barbados	1.71	Caribbean
12	United States	1.63	Northern America
13	Antigua and Barbuda	1.58	Caribbean
14	Trinidad and Tobago	1.54	Caribbean
15	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.53	Caribbean
16	Dominica	1.48	Caribbean
17	Grenada	1.47	Caribbean
18	Cuba	1.45	Caribbean
19	Saint Lucia	1.39	Caribbean
20	Bahamas	1.37	Caribbean
21	Jamaica	1.35	Caribbean
22	Costa Rica	1.32	Central America
23	Canada	1.25	Northern America

Territories and other places

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

Place	Births per woman	Status
Saint Martin	2.67	Territory of France
US Virgin Islands	1.97	Territory of United States of America
Greenland	1.71	Territory of Denmark
Aruba	1.61	Territory of Netherlands
Cayman Islands	1.53	Territory of United Kingdom
Turks and Caicos Islands	1.45	Territory of United Kingdom
Sint Maarten	1.44	Territory of Netherlands
Bermuda	1.41	Territory of United Kingdom
Curaçao	1.40	Territory of Netherlands
British Virgin Islands	1.05	Territory of United Kingdom
Puerto Rico	0.92	Territory of United States of America

Questions

Which country in North America has the highest fertility rate?: Haiti has the highest fertility rate in North America: 2.63 births per woman (2024). Next come Honduras (2.48 births per woman) and Guatemala (2.29 births per woman).
Which country in North America has the lowest fertility rate?: Canada, with 1.25 births per woman (2024).
What is the typical fertility rate of a country in North America?: The median of the 23 countries in North America is 1.63 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.