Mali vs Niger: Fertility rate: births per woman

Mali
5.61 live births per woman
in 2023
Niger
6.06 live births per woman
in 2023
Mali rank
6th
Niger rank
3rd

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

  • Mali
  • Niger
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How they compare

Niger currently reports 6.06 live births per woman against 5.61 live births per woman in Mali, a difference of 0.447 live births per woman.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.1 times Mali's.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Niger has been ahead every year.

Globally, Mali ranks 6th and Niger ranks 3rd 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.