Table # 10b
Highest Total Fertility Rates (TFR)

TFR or Total Fertility Rate is the average number of children a woman would have assuming that current age- specific birth rates remain constant throughout her childbearing years.

  1993 1998 2000 2003 2006 2009
1 Gaza Gaza Niger Niger Niger Niger
7.9 7.4 7.5 8.0 7.9 7.4
2 Malawi Yemen Congo (Zaire) Somalia Mali
Guinea-Bissau
Uganda
Somalia
7.7 7.3 7.2 7.2 7.1 6.7
3 Yemen,
Ethiopia
Angola Oman Yemen, Mali Uganda
Somalia,
Angola
7.5 7.2 7.1 7.0 6.9 6.6
4 Nigeria,
Cote d'Ivoire
Oman Somalia Uganda
Congo
Burundi
Liberia,
Angola
Afghanistan
Dem Rep of theCongo
Timor-Leste
7.4 7.1 7.0 6.9 6.8 6.5
5 Uganda Ethiopia
Somalia
Uganda Angola
Comoros
Chad
Congo
Chad
Malawi
7.3 7.0 6.9 6.8 6.7 6.3

Source: Population Reference Bureau Data Sheets:
1993, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009

Chart created by Russ Long