Cameroon vs Guinea: Fertility rate: births per woman

Cameroon
4.32 live births per woman
in 2023
Guinea
4.22 live births per woman
in 2023
Cameroon rank
18th
Guinea rank
21st

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

  • Cameroon
  • Guinea
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How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 4.32 live births per woman against 4.22 live births per woman in Guinea, a difference of 0.105 live births per woman.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Guinea ahead.

Globally, Cameroon ranks 18th and Guinea ranks 21st 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.