Democratic Republic of Congo vs Mali: Fertility rate: births per woman

Democratic Republic of Congo

6.05 live births per woman

in 2023

Mali

5.61 live births per woman

in 2023

Democratic Republic of Congo rank

4th

Mali rank

6th

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

Democratic Republic of Congo
Mali

How they compare

Democratic Republic of Congo currently reports 6.05 live births per woman against 5.61 live births per woman in Mali, a difference of 0.437 live births per woman.

That makes Democratic Republic of Congo's figure about 1.1 times Mali's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Mali ahead.

Globally, Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 4th and Mali ranks 6th 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.