population

A small child walks around during a village meeting in Nepal. Recently, Nepalese have been having fewer children. The country's birth rate declined from 32 in 2003 to 22 in 2011. Niger has the highest birth rate in the world. Which countries have the lowest?

There are 4.1 births every second, 245 every minute, or 14,698 per hour. This means that 352,755 people are born every day, 10,759,033 every month and 129,108,390 every year. The world population is expected to reach 9.1 billion in 2050.