Equatorial Guinea vs Madagascar: Fertility rate: births per woman

Equatorial Guinea

4.08 live births per woman

in 2023

Madagascar

3.97 live births per woman

in 2023

Equatorial Guinea rank

26th

Madagascar rank

29th

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

Equatorial Guinea
Madagascar

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 4.08 live births per woman against 3.97 live births per woman in Madagascar, a difference of 0.109 live births per woman.

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

Globally, Equatorial Guinea ranks 26th and Madagascar ranks 29th 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.