COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Timor-Leste Fertility Rate
Timor-Leste fertility rate: latest available value for 2024, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SP.DYN.TFRT.IN| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2,63 | -0,08 |
| 2023 | 2,71 | -0,09 |
| 2022 | 2,80 | -0,09 |
| 2021 | 2,89 | -0,12 |
| 2020 | 3,01 | -0,10 |
| 2019 | 3,12 | -0,13 |
| 2018 | 3,24 | -0,15 |
| 2017 | 3,40 | -0,18 |
| 2016 | 3,58 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year.
Source organization: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT)
Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 03:52:20. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesTimor-Leste recorded 2,63 births per woman in 2024, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2023, the fertility rate decreased by 0,08.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 9 observations from 2016 to 2024, the average was 3,04; the minimum was 2,63 in 2024 and the maximum was 3,58 in 2016.
Timor-Leste ranks 70 out of 217 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for East Asia & Pacific.
It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Long-term demographic replacement and growth.