Botswana vs Micronesia (country): Fertility rate: births per woman

Botswana

2.73 live births per woman

in 2023

Micronesia (country)

2.75 live births per woman

in 2023

Botswana rank

68th

Micronesia (country) rank

67th

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

Botswana
Micronesia (country)

How they compare

Micronesia (country) currently reports 2.75 live births per woman against 2.73 live births per woman in Botswana, a difference of 0.016 live births per woman.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Micronesia (country) ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 68th and Micronesia (country) ranks 67th 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: 06 August 2026

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.