Countries With the Lowest Birth Rates

Every country with a figure for birth rate, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are San Marino (4.2), Korea, Rep. (4.7) and Hong Kong SAR, China (4.9). The middle country of the 217 has 13.4.

What this measures

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people). Source: World Bank. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2024–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on birth rate

• Countries With the Highest Birth Rates
• Birth rate by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest European Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest African Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Indigenous American Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest East Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest South Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Middle Eastern Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Ethnic Diversity
• Countries With the Lowest Median Ages

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.