Sudan vs Yemen: Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index

Sudan

4.32 live births per woman

in 2023

Yemen

4.59 live births per woman

in 2023

Sudan rank

17th

Yemen rank

14th

Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index over time

Sudan
Yemen

How they compare

Yemen currently reports 4.59 live births per woman against 4.32 live births per woman in Sudan, a difference of 0.267 live births per woman.

That makes Yemen's figure about 1.1 times Sudan's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Yemen ahead.

Globally, Sudan ranks 17th and Yemen ranks 14th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Fertility rate vs. Human Development Index
Unit: live births per woman
Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

The total fertility rate: the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the year's age-specific birth rates throughout her childbearing years.