In 2024, Yobe State recorded Nigeria’s highest fertility rate at 7.5 births per woman , while Rivers State recorded recorded the lowest, according to.Niveris's Demographic and Health Survey.
The survey shows the entire country's fertility rate as follows;
- Yobe: 7.5 births
- Jigawa: 6.9 births
- Kebbi: 6.6 births
- Borno: 6.5 births
- Zamfara: 6.3 births
- Bauchi: 6.2 births
- Kano: 5.8 births
- Katsina: 5.7 births
- Kaduna: 5.6 births
- Gombe: 5.5 births
- Sokoto: 5.4 births
- Adamawa: 5.3 births
- Taraba: 5.2 births
- Kogi: 4.9 births
- Ebonyi: 4.7 births
- Imo: 4.4 births
- Niger: 4.4 births
- Plateau: 4.4 births
- Nasarawa: 4.3 births
- Ogun: 4.1 births
- Kwara: 4.0 births
- Ekiti: 3.8 births
- Bayelsa: 3.8 births
- Abia: 3.7 births
- Anambra: 3.7 births
- Delta: 3.7 births
- Enugu: 3.5 births
- Benue: 3.5 births
- Oyo: 3.3 births
- Osun: 3.3 births
- Edo: 3.3 births
- Akwa Ibom: 3.3 births
- FCT: 3.2 births
- Lagos: 3.2 births
- Ondo: 3.1 births
- Cross River: 3.0 births
- Rivers: 2.9 births
