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Highest Fertility Countries with Exceptions

Can you guess the the countries with the highest fertility rates that are NOT in Africa?
2025 estimates from the UN via Wikipedia
Color coded by continent
Quiz by Aaron197
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Last updated: June 21, 2025
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First submittedJanuary 28, 2021
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Average score85.0%
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Country
4.66
Afghanistan
4.41
Yemen
3.75
Samoa
3.53
Vanuatu
3.50
Pakistan
3.47
Solomon Islands
3.45
Uzbekistan
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Country
3.25
Nauru
3.17
Iraq
3.14
Tuvalu
3.09
Kiribati
3.07
Tonga
3.03
Papua New Guinea
2.99
Tajikistan
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Country
2.95
Kazakhstan
2.82
Marshall Islands
2.75
Israel
2.75
Kyrgyzstan
2.71
F. S. Micronesia
2.66
Syria
29 Comments
+17
Level 72
Jan 29, 2023
Mongolia is quite the surprise!
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Level 66
Feb 22, 2024
At the same time, Kazakhstan was surprised

and not, with a fairly high development, such a birth rate. Although, the government of Kazakhstan is very agitating for large families there, and probably the undeveloped and terribly conservative south provided a large number

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Level 48
Apr 11, 2024
higher development often reduces fertility, innit?
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Level 66
Jun 21, 2025
Yes, that's what I was thinking about. In general, the mentality of Kazakhs is very different geographically. You may have heard about the three Kazakh clans ("zhuzes"), and that the north of Kazakhstan is more developed than the South.

But in general, the Kazakh government's policy is very encouraging of large families, much more successful than Russia, which constantly sounds the alarm on demographics. Most likely, this is a matter of mentality. From my childhood, I remember that for Kazakhs, having many children was a sign of wealth and prosperity (many children means you have money to raise them). By the way, this is their difference from Russian Kazakhs with a corresponding Russian mentality (I can say as a Russian Kazakh, the new generation does not strongly strive for large families), where more wealthy people prefer to have less children and personal freedom is more valuable.

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Level 72
Feb 22, 2024
I'm shocked that the percentage for Haiti is so low, it was one of the first countries I guessed on the first quiz.
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Level 65
Feb 23, 2024
How could i have only missed afghanistan
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Level 92
Feb 23, 2024
That really is a feat if you got all the other stan countries. The surprising one to me was that Turkmenistan was the only stan country not on the list...
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Level 74
May 14, 2024
Its a lot richer than its neighbours because of oil money
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Level 51
May 14, 2024
But it's citizens aren't as rich. In fact, Turkmens are usually incredibly poor. Turkmenistan is a dictatorship. So it would make sense to assume they might have more offspring.
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Level 66
Sep 23, 2024
Turkmens are incredibly poor. All the money is in the hands of the dictatorship, I do not think that their low birth rate is due to well-being, rather the opposite. The only prosperous country in Central Asia is Kazakhstan, other are although not Afghanistan but still very poor.
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Level 34
Apr 11, 2024
i coundnt get which was the geographical location!!!! oceania damn you
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Level 67
May 15, 2024
Pretty sure the colors are consistent between quizzes. Africa is purple, Europe is blue, Asia is red, North America is orange, South America is green, and Oceania is light blue
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Level 38
May 14, 2024
Oddball Israel
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Level 22
May 15, 2024
Israel's got tons of orthodox Jews (and Muslims) who have large families with lots of kids cuz of religious tradition
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Level 57
May 14, 2024
I forgot Syria!
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Level 24
May 14, 2024
Im surprised because Like 90% of these countries are poor or dangerous
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Level 67
May 15, 2024
That's the point
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Level 63
May 30, 2024
No, its a just correlation, caused by the same factor of underdevelopment
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Level 34
May 1, 2025
when your kid is prolly gonna die before adulthood, you need backup
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Level 72
May 15, 2024
Everything is alphabetically arranged, but two 3.0 birth rate countries are not. Please fix them. They almost got me.
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Level 72
May 23, 2024
amazed that India and Bangladesh not here
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Level 63
May 30, 2024
bruh

both are below the replacement rate of 2.1

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Level 85
Jun 21, 2025
Because of explosive population growth in both countries in decades past (both countries approximately quadrupled in population over the course of the 20th century), there have been some social and government efforts to reduce population growth in more recent years. That process also occurred somewhat naturally, as both countries have urbanized significantly over the last few decades, and urban populations have fewer kids on average than rural populations.
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Level 89
Jun 27, 2025
Yes, but to have Pakistan so high on the list and Bangladesh not there at all seems weird.
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Level 62
Jul 1, 2025
Bangladesh has almost 50% more GDP per capita in PPP terms than Pakistan. That explains the low TFR
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Level 15
Jan 20, 2025
It would be useful to update with better and updated sources. Philippines is now at 1.3, Iraq 2.9 or Mongolia 2.4 for example
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Level 68
Jun 23, 2025
Full marks for The Robbster.
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Level 76
Jun 24, 2025
Took a while to realize what continent the light blue was (I'm from there 🙄🙄)
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Level 72
Jul 6, 2025
Maybe you were too busy reproducing? :)