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The world, indicator by indicator 21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.
GDP per capita GDP per capita (PPP) Extreme poverty Income inequality (Gini) Unemployment Inflation Military spending Life expectancy Under-5 mortality Maternal mortality Child stunting Health spending Fertility rate Adult literacy Primary enrolment Education spending Electricity access Safe drinking water Internet use CO₂ per person Population
Fertility rate, total (births per woman) read at 2024 · 2 years old Children a woman would bear if she lived through her childbearing years at current age-specific fertility rates.
World median
1.90births per woman
Countries reporting
217/ 217
Observations, all years
14.1k
The median is computed across the 217 countries reporting in 2024 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. This indicator has no better end — it is reported as context, not as a score.
How the world is spread · 2024 2 countries between 0.58 and 0.78 births per woman 3 countries between 0.78 and 0.97 births per woman 11 countries between 0.97 and 1.17 births per woman 15 countries between 1.17 and 1.36 births per woman 45 countries between 1.36 and 1.55 births per woman 19 countries between 1.55 and 1.75 births per woman 15 countries between 1.75 and 1.94 births per woman 12 countries between 1.94 and 2.14 births per woman 13 countries between 2.14 and 2.33 births per woman 7 countries between 2.33 and 2.53 births per woman 12 countries between 2.53 and 2.72 births per woman 6 countries between 2.72 and 2.92 births per woman 4 countries between 2.92 and 3.11 births per woman 7 countries between 3.11 and 3.30 births per woman 2 countries between 3.30 and 3.50 births per woman 9 countries between 3.50 and 3.69 births per woman 7 countries between 3.69 and 3.89 births per woman 4 countries between 3.89 and 4.08 births per woman 9 countries between 4.08 and 4.28 births per woman 1 country between 4.28 and 4.47 births per woman 4 countries between 4.47 and 4.67 births per woman 3 countries between 4.67 and 4.86 births per woman 1 country between 4.86 and 5.06 births per woman 1 country between 5.44 and 5.64 births per woman 5 countries between 5.83 and 6.03 births per woman MEDIAN 0.58 6.03 217 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 3.55 births per woman How much of the world was measured ALL 217 1960: 216 of 217 countries reported 1961: 215 of 217 countries reported 1962: 216 of 217 countries reported 1963: 215 of 217 countries reported 1964: 216 of 217 countries reported 1965: 216 of 217 countries reported 1966: 216 of 217 countries reported 1967: 216 of 217 countries reported 1968: 216 of 217 countries reported 1969: 216 of 217 countries reported 1970: 216 of 217 countries reported 1971: 216 of 217 countries reported 1972: 216 of 217 countries reported 1973: 216 of 217 countries reported 1974: 216 of 217 countries reported 1975: 216 of 217 countries reported 1976: 216 of 217 countries reported 1977: 216 of 217 countries reported 1978: 216 of 217 countries reported 1979: 216 of 217 countries reported 1980: 216 of 217 countries reported 1981: 216 of 217 countries reported 1982: 216 of 217 countries reported 1983: 216 of 217 countries reported 1984: 216 of 217 countries reported 1985: 216 of 217 countries reported 1986: 216 of 217 countries reported 1987: 216 of 217 countries reported 1988: 216 of 217 countries reported 1989: 216 of 217 countries reported 1990: 217 of 217 countries reported 1991: 217 of 217 countries reported 1992: 217 of 217 countries reported 1993: 217 of 217 countries reported 1994: 217 of 217 countries reported 1995: 217 of 217 countries reported 1996: 217 of 217 countries reported 1997: 217 of 217 countries reported 1998: 217 of 217 countries reported 1999: 217 of 217 countries reported 2000: 217 of 217 countries reported 2001: 217 of 217 countries reported 2002: 217 of 217 countries reported 2003: 217 of 217 countries reported 2004: 217 of 217 countries reported 2005: 217 of 217 countries reported 2006: 217 of 217 countries reported 2007: 217 of 217 countries reported 2008: 217 of 217 countries reported 2009: 217 of 217 countries reported 2010: 217 of 217 countries reported 2011: 217 of 217 countries reported 2012: 217 of 217 countries reported 2013: 217 of 217 countries reported 2014: 217 of 217 countries reported 2015: 217 of 217 countries reported 2016: 217 of 217 countries reported 2017: 217 of 217 countries reported 2018: 217 of 217 countries reported 2019: 217 of 217 countries reported 2020: 217 of 217 countries reported 2021: 217 of 217 countries reported 2022: 217 of 217 countries reported 2023: 217 of 217 countries reported 2024: 217 of 217 countries reported 1960 2024 Best year 1990 with 217 of 217 · most recent 2024 with 217. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell. Read with care
· Deliberately unscored. High and low fertility each carry their own consequences; neither is a national success or failure. What we can actually see Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.
Indicator Countries Years Read at Observations Life expectancy 217 / 217 1960–2024 2024 (217) 14,071 Fertility rate 217 / 217 1960–2024 2024 (217) 14,073 Population 217 / 217 1960–2025 2025 (217) 14,292 Electricity access 216 / 217 1990–2024 2024 (215) 6,747 GDP per capita 214 / 217 1960–2025 2025 (186) 11,764 Internet use 213 / 217 1990–2025 2024 (182) 6,224 Primary enrolment 209 / 217 1970–2025 2023 (166) 7,495 GDP per capita (PPP) 203 / 217 1990–2025 2025 (185) 7,020 Education spending 203 / 217 1970–2025 2022 (164) 5,124 CO₂ per person 203 / 217 1970–2024 2024 (203) 11,165 Under-5 mortality 196 / 217 1960–2024 2024 (196) 11,861 Maternal mortality 194 / 217 1985–2023 2023 (194) 7,566 Inflation 193 / 217 1960–2025 2025 (165) 9,136 Health spending 193 / 217 2000–2024 2023 (192) 4,562 Unemployment 187 / 217 1991–2025 2025 (182) 6,531 Extreme poverty 171 / 217 1963–2025 2021 (81) 2,430 Income inequality (Gini) 171 / 217 1963–2025 2021 (81) 2,430 Adult literacy 170 / 217 1970–2024 2022 (45) 1,121 Military spending 164 / 217 1960–2024 2024 (147) 7,909 Child stunting 163 / 217 1983–2024 2018 (48) 1,129 Safe drinking water 151 / 217 2000–2024 2024 (148) 3,716
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →