Congo vs Madagascar: Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling

Congo
4.11 live births per woman
in 2024
Madagascar
3.91 live births per woman
in 2024
Congo rank
25th
Madagascar rank
27th

Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling over time

  • Congo
  • Madagascar
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How they compare

Congo currently reports 4.11 live births per woman against 3.91 live births per woman in Madagascar, a difference of 0.197 live births per woman.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.1 times Madagascar's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Madagascar ahead.

Congo ranks 25th and Madagascar ranks 27th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling
Unit
live births per woman
Source
Human Fertility Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 17,919 data points, 1891–2024
Last refreshed

The average number of live births a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to the fertility rates of a given period and if they were not subject to mortality.