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Taiwan's fertility rate is estimated at 1.11 children per woman, the lowest in the world.
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Europe leads our ranking with eight countries, followed by Asia with six, North America with five, and Africa with one. Dataset
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South Korea has started allowing families to hire foreign nannies to encourage higher birth rates.
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Meanwhile, Japan has allocated as much as 3.6 trillion yen (US$22.3 billion) annually in an effort to reverse the trend.
Europe is also the only region in the world expected to experience an overall population decrease in the near term (between 2022 and 2050), with a projected decline of 7%.
In contrast, populations in other regions, including Central, South, and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America are expected to continue growing but will reach their peak populations before 2100.