Chile vs Italy: Fertility rate: births per woman

Chile

1.17 live births per woman

in 2023

Italy

1.2 live births per woman

in 2023

Chile rank

221st

Italy rank

220th

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

Chile
Italy

How they compare

Italy currently reports 1.2 live births per woman against 1.17 live births per woman in Chile, a difference of 0.031 live births per woman.

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

Globally, Chile ranks 221st and Italy ranks 220th 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.