Cameroon vs Nigeria: Fertility rate: births per woman
Cameroon
4.32 live births per woman
in 2023
Nigeria
4.48 live births per woman
in 2023
Cameroon rank
18th
Nigeria rank
16th
Fertility rate: births per woman over time
- Cameroon
- Nigeria
How they compare
Nigeria currently reports 4.48 live births per woman against 4.32 live births per woman in Cameroon, a difference of 0.16 live births per woman.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Nigeria ahead.
Globally, Cameroon ranks 18th and Nigeria ranks 16th of 236 countries.
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About this data
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.