“Global Fertility Crisis: Is The World Running Out Of Babies?”

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Somalia, Chad, Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo had a fertility rates of 6.1 in 2023, the highest in the world, followed by the Central African Republic and Mali. 

Out of the 31 countries in the world where women had 4 or more children on average, 29 were in Africa that year.

On average, women in 1963 were having 5.3 children in their lifetime and by 2023, that had more than halved to 2.2. 

During the same period, the global population rose by around 150 percent from 3.2 billion to 8.1 billion. 

The fact that populations kept (and keep) growing despite falling global fertility is tied to longer life expectancy and lower childhood mortality. 

The UN expects global fertility to reach the minimum replacement level of 2.1 by the middle of the century while global population is expected to start falling towards the end of it.

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