Module 5: History of World Population Growth and its Impact on Society
  Lecture 17: Demographic Schism between Developed and Developing Countries and Future Prospects
 

 

Table 5.5 shows the differences in total fertility rates.

TABLE 5.5: TOTAL FERTILITY RATE FOR SELECTED COUNTIRES, 2009

Total fertility rate

Country

Total fertility rate

 High

 

 

 

 Hongkong SAR, China

 1.01

 

 Korea , Republic of

 1.22

 

 Japan

 1.26

 

 Singapore

 1.26

 

 Poland

 1.27

 

 Germany

 1.32

 Low

 

 

 

 Chad

 6.08

 

 Uganda

 6.25

 

 Somalia

 6.35

 

 Togo

 6.38

 

 Afghanistan

 6.51

 

 Niger

 7.07

The above table shows that the total fertility rate varies from 1.01 (in Hongkong) to 7.07 (in Niger ). In most developed countries fertility is below 2.1 and there are several countries in which average rate of population growth is negative.