Barbados vs Romania: Fertility rate: births per woman

Barbados
1.71 live births per woman
in 2023
Romania
1.71 live births per woman
in 2023
Barbados rank
139th
Romania rank
138th

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

  • Barbados
  • Romania
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How they compare

Romania currently reports 1.71 live births per woman against 1.71 live births per woman in Barbados, a difference of 0.005 live births per woman.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Barbados ahead.

Globally, Barbados ranks 139th and Romania ranks 138th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Fertility rate: births per woman
Unit
live births per woman
Source
Human Fertility Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 17,683 data points, 1891–2023
Last refreshed

The average number of live births a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to the fertility rates of a given period and if they were not subject to mortality.