Fertility rate: 6.76

This West African country located under Algeria is the country with the highest fertility rate in the world with an average of 6.76 children per woman of childbearing age and a crude birth rate (the number of births registered during a year per 1000 inhabitants) of 49.66.

In 2012, the United Nations Development Program considered Niger one of the least developed countries in the world in its annual report, giving it a human development index of just 0,304.