Botswana

Fertility Rate

2.8

births per woman

Global Ranking

58

59

59

61

62

63

64

Oman2.78

64

66

Fiji2.75

67

68

Turkmenistan2.7

Africa Ranking

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

47

South Africa2.36

48

49

News

Why the fertility gap between north and south Nigeria matters
The EconomistThursday, November 7, 2024
How to grapple with soaring world population? An answer from Botswana
The GuardianWednesday, October 10, 2018
Figure 6: Investment and savings as a percentage of GDP, 1975-2004
researchgate.netFriday, January 17, 2025
Emulating Botswana’s Approach to Reproductive Health Services Could Speed Development in the Sahel
New Security BeatMonday, January 27, 2020
Revealed: Countries with the Highest Fertility Rates (by Births Per Woman), 2024
CEOWORLD magazineSunday, January 21, 2024
(Blog) As Africa’s Population Crosses 1.5 Billion, The Demographic Window Is Opening; Getting The Dividend Requires More Time And Stronger Effort
United Nations Economic Commission for AfricaFriday, July 12, 2024
Trends and factors associated with declining lifetime fertility among married women in Kenya between 2003 and 2014: an analysis of Kenya demographic health surveys
BMC Public HealthThursday, April 20, 2023
Forever Young? What Africa can learn from Southern Africa’s demographic transition
World Bank BlogsMonday, September 19, 2016
Total Fertility Rate 2025
worldpopulationreview.comSunday, June 28, 2020
Productive efficiency of beef cattle production in Botswana: a latent class stochastic meta-frontier analysis
FrontiersSunday, June 30, 2024

Definition of Fertility Rate

Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year.

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