World data · 194 countries · updated October 2026

Generation Alpha as a share of each country's population

What percentage of each country is Generation Alpha — the same 194 countries ranked by cohort share rather than cohort size.

The short answer

Central African Republic leads the 194 countries ranked here on generation alpha share of population at 49%, followed by Somalia at 47% and Mali at 46%. The median country is Vietnam at 23%.

#1 49% Central African Republic Sub-Saharan Africa #2 47% Somalia Sub-Saharan Africa #3 46% Mali Sub-Saharan Africa Median 23% Vietnam The middle of 194

What this measures

Generation Alpha as a percentage of the total national population, calculated from the cohort estimate and the current population.

What it does not

It says nothing about the absolute number of children, and a high share can reflect either high fertility or low life expectancy.

The bottom of the table

Puerto Rico 11%

Japan 11%

South Korea 12%

Andorra 12%

Singapore 12%

Bars are scaled across the full observed range (11% to 49%), not to 100%, so the real spread is visible.

How the values are spread

Where the 194 countries fall

The range from 11% to 49% is split into 10 equal bands, and each bar counts the countries in one band.

Number of countries in each band of generation alpha share of population
Band	Countries	Including
11.3% to 15.1%	33	Netherlands, Qatar, Sint Maarten and 30 more
15.1% to 18.9%	46	North Korea, Australia, Ireland and 43 more
18.9% to 22.6%	17	India, Ecuador, Turkey and 14 more
22.6% to 26.4%	21	Belize, Dominican Republic, Lebanon and 18 more
26.4% to 30.2%	14	Algeria, Laos, Egypt and 11 more
30.2% to 34.0%	14	Marshall Islands, Kenya, Guatemala and 11 more
34.0% to 37.8%	19	Côte d'Ivoire, Namibia, São Tomé and Príncipe and 16 more
37.8% to 41.5%	25	Benin, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and 22 more
41.5% to 45.3%	1	Mauritania
45.3% to 49.1%	4	Central African Republic, Somalia, Mali and 1 more

How this is built: each band is one tenth of the gap between the lowest and highest value; a country is counted in the band its value falls in, and the top band includes the highest value. Countries with no comparable figure are left out. Chart drawn with Apache ECharts.

The full ranking

All 194 countries

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194 countries shown

Generation Alpha as a share of each country's population, ranked. Column headings re-sort the table.
Rank	Country	Generation Alpha share of population	Region	Gen Alpha
#1	Central African Republic	49%	Sub-Saharan Africa	3m
#2	Somalia	47%	Sub-Saharan Africa	10m
#3	Mali	46%	Sub-Saharan Africa	12m
#4	Chad	46%	Sub-Saharan Africa	10m
#5	Mauritania	42%	Sub-Saharan Africa	2m
#6	Benin	41%	Sub-Saharan Africa	6m
#7	Zimbabwe	41%	Sub-Saharan Africa	7m
#8	Burkina Faso	41%	Sub-Saharan Africa	10m
#9	Nigeria	41%	Sub-Saharan Africa	95m
#10	Zambia	41%	Sub-Saharan Africa	9m
#11	Guinea	41%	Sub-Saharan Africa	6m
#12	Republic of the Congo	41%	Sub-Saharan Africa	3m
#13	Yemen	41%	Middle East & North Africa	18m
#14	DR Congo	40%	Sub-Saharan Africa	44m
#15	Togo	40%	Sub-Saharan Africa	4m
#16	Tanzania	40%	Sub-Saharan Africa	28m
#17	Mozambique	40%	Sub-Saharan Africa	14m
#18	Cameroon	40%	Sub-Saharan Africa	12m
#19	Malawi	40%	Sub-Saharan Africa	9m
#20	Angola	40%	Sub-Saharan Africa	15m
#21	Afghanistan	40%	Middle East & North Africa	17m
#22	Uganda	39%	Sub-Saharan Africa	20m
#23	Madagascar	39%	Sub-Saharan Africa	13m
#24	Liberia	39%	Sub-Saharan Africa	2m
#25	Guinea-Bissau	38%	Sub-Saharan Africa	881k
#26	Samoa	38%	Oceania	84k
#27	South Sudan	38%	Sub-Saharan Africa	5m
#28	Gambia	38%	Sub-Saharan Africa	1m
#29	Sierra Leone	38%	Sub-Saharan Africa	3m
#30	Eritrea	38%	Sub-Saharan Africa	1m
#31	Côte d'Ivoire	38%	Sub-Saharan Africa	12m
#32	Namibia	38%	Sub-Saharan Africa	1m
#33	São Tomé and Príncipe	38%	Sub-Saharan Africa	92k
#34	Sudan	37%	Sub-Saharan Africa	19m
#35	Nauru	37%	Oceania	5k
#36	Rwanda	37%	Sub-Saharan Africa	6m
#37	Gabon	37%	Sub-Saharan Africa	959k
#38	Comoros	37%	Sub-Saharan Africa	331k
#39	Senegal	37%	Sub-Saharan Africa	7m
#40	Equatorial Guinea	37%	Sub-Saharan Africa	736k
#41	Palestine	37%	Middle East & North Africa	2m
#42	Ethiopia	36%	Sub-Saharan Africa	48m
#43	Tajikistan	36%	Europe & Central Asia	4m
#44	Tonga	35%	Oceania	36k
#45	Kiribati	34%	Oceania	48k
#46	Ghana	34%	Sub-Saharan Africa	12m
#47	Lesotho	34%	Sub-Saharan Africa	815k
#48	Iraq	34%	Middle East & North Africa	16m
#49	Timor-Leste	34%	East Asia & Pacific	476k
#50	Marshall Islands	34%	Oceania	12k
#51	Kenya	33%	Sub-Saharan Africa	19m
#52	Guatemala	33%	Latin America	6m
#53	Tuvalu	33%	Oceania	3k
#54	Kyrgyzstan	32%	Europe & Central Asia	2m
#55	Eswatini	32%	Sub-Saharan Africa	419k
#56	Pakistan	32%	South Asia	80m
#57	Micronesia	32%	Oceania	36k
#58	Uzbekistan	31%	Europe & Central Asia	12m
#59	Turkmenistan	31%	Europe & Central Asia	2m
#60	Haiti	31%	Latin America	4m
#61	Mongolia	31%	East Asia & Pacific	1m
#62	Honduras	30%	Latin America	3m
#63	Jordan	30%	Middle East & North Africa	4m
#64	Algeria	30%	Middle East & North Africa	14m
#65	Laos	30%	East Asia & Pacific	2m
#66	Egypt	29%	Middle East & North Africa	34m
#67	Kazakhstan	29%	Europe & Central Asia	6m
#68	Guyana	29%	Latin America	243k
#69	Djibouti	29%	Middle East & North Africa	345k
#70	Syria	28%	Middle East & North Africa	8m
#71	Nicaragua	28%	Latin America	2m
#72	Paraguay	28%	Latin America	2m
#73	Philippines	28%	East Asia & Pacific	32m
#74	Israel	27%	Middle East & North Africa	3m
#75	Libya	27%	Middle East & North Africa	2m
#76	Nepal	27%	South Asia	8m
#77	South Africa	27%	Sub-Saharan Africa	17m
#78	Belize	26%	Latin America	113k
#79	Dominican Republic	26%	Latin America	3m
#80	Lebanon	25%	Middle East & North Africa	2m
#81	Morocco	25%	Middle East & North Africa	10m
#82	Suriname	25%	Latin America	163k
#83	Bangladesh	25%	South Asia	44m
#84	Venezuela	25%	Latin America	7m
#85	El Salvador	25%	Latin America	2m
#86	Cape Verde	25%	Sub-Saharan Africa	131k
#87	Oman	25%	Middle East & North Africa	1m
#88	Saudi Arabia	24%	Middle East & North Africa	9m
#89	Indonesia	24%	East Asia & Pacific	68m
#90	Argentina	24%	Latin America	11m
#91	Panama	24%	Latin America	1m
#92	Mexico	24%	North America	31m
#93	Myanmar	24%	East Asia & Pacific	13m
#94	Peru	24%	Latin America	8m
#95	Tunisia	23%	Middle East & North Africa	3m
#96	Bolivia	23%	Latin America	3m
#97	Malaysia	23%	East Asia & Pacific	8m
#98	Vietnam	23%	East Asia & Pacific	23m
#99	India	23%	South Asia	327m
#100	Ecuador	22%	Latin America	4m
#101	Turkey	22%	Middle East & North Africa	19m
#102	Azerbaijan	21%	Europe & Central Asia	2m
#103	St Vincent and the Grenadines	21%	Latin America	21k
#104	Colombia	21%	Latin America	11m
#105	Brazil	21%	Latin America	44m
#106	Brunei	21%	East Asia & Pacific	97k
#107	Georgia	21%	Europe & Central Asia	780k
#108	Chile	20%	Latin America	4m
#109	Seychelles	20%	Sub-Saharan Africa	27k
#110	Iran	20%	Middle East & North Africa	18m
#111	Moldova	19%	Europe & Central Asia	578k
#112	Armenia	19%	Europe & Central Asia	557k
#113	Maldives	19%	South Asia	101k
#114	Grenada	19%	Latin America	22k
#115	New Zealand	19%	Oceania	1m
#116	North Korea	19%	East Asia & Pacific	5m
#117	Australia	19%	Oceania	5m
#118	Ireland	19%	Europe & Central Asia	1m
#119	Jamaica	19%	Latin America	518k
#120	St Kitts and Nevis	18%	Latin America	9k
#121	Bahrain	18%	Middle East & North Africa	309k
#122	France	18%	Europe & Central Asia	12m
#123	Sweden	18%	Europe & Central Asia	2m
#124	Costa Rica	18%	Latin America	947k
#125	Russia	18%	Europe & Central Asia	26m
#126	Kuwait	18%	Middle East & North Africa	917k
#127	United States	18%	North America	62m
#128	Palau	18%	Oceania	3k
#129	Montenegro	18%	Europe & Central Asia	112k
#130	Uruguay	18%	Latin America	605k
#131	Gibraltar	18%	Europe & Central Asia	7k
#132	Trinidad and Tobago	18%	Latin America	265k
#133	Dominica	18%	Latin America	12k
#134	Iceland	18%	Europe & Central Asia	70k
#135	Bahamas	18%	Latin America	71k
#136	Antigua and Barbuda	18%	Latin America	17k
#137	Sri Lanka	17%	South Asia	4m
#138	St Lucia	17%	Latin America	31k
#139	United Kingdom	17%	Europe & Central Asia	12m
#140	Barbados	17%	Latin America	48k
#141	North Macedonia	17%	Europe & Central Asia	298k
#142	Aruba	17%	Latin America	18k
#143	Albania	16%	Europe & Central Asia	457k
#144	China	16%	East Asia & Pacific	230m
#145	Poland	16%	Europe & Central Asia	6m
#146	Norway	16%	Europe & Central Asia	900k
#147	Cayman Islands	16%	Latin America	12k
#148	Turks and Caicos Islands	16%	Latin America	8k
#149	Cyprus	16%	Europe & Central Asia	222k
#150	Ukraine	16%	Europe & Central Asia	6m
#151	Belarus	16%	Europe & Central Asia	1m
#152	Luxembourg	16%	Europe & Central Asia	108k
#153	Denmark	16%	Europe & Central Asia	937k
#154	Estonia	16%	Europe & Central Asia	203k
#155	United Arab Emirates	16%	Middle East & North Africa	2m
#156	Latvia	16%	Europe & Central Asia	279k
#157	Romania	15%	Europe & Central Asia	3m
#158	Slovakia	15%	Europe & Central Asia	849k
#159	Thailand	15%	East Asia & Pacific	11m
#160	Belgium	15%	Europe & Central Asia	2m
#161	Czechia	15%	Europe & Central Asia	2m
#162	Netherlands	15%	Europe & Central Asia	3m
#163	Qatar	15%	Middle East & North Africa	476k
#164	Sint Maarten	15%	Latin America	7k
#165	Cuba	15%	Latin America	2m
#166	Hungary	15%	Europe & Central Asia	1m
#167	Slovenia	15%	Europe & Central Asia	306k
#168	Canada	15%	North America	6m
#169	Curaçao	15%	Latin America	27k
#170	Lithuania	15%	Europe & Central Asia	406k
#171	Switzerland	14%	Europe & Central Asia	1m
#172	Finland	14%	Europe & Central Asia	806k
#173	Germany	14%	Europe & Central Asia	12m
#174	Austria	14%	Europe & Central Asia	1m
#175	Bulgaria	14%	Europe & Central Asia	960k
#176	Serbia	14%	Europe & Central Asia	947k
#177	Liechtenstein	14%	Europe & Central Asia	6k
#178	Mauritius	14%	Sub-Saharan Africa	184k
#179	British Virgin Islands	14%	Latin America	6k
#180	Croatia	14%	Europe & Central Asia	524k
#181	Monaco	14%	Europe & Central Asia	5k
#182	Bermuda	13%	North America	9k
#183	Greece	13%	Europe & Central Asia	1m
#184	Malta	13%	Middle East & North Africa	71k
#185	Bosnia and Herzegovina	13%	Europe & Central Asia	400k
#186	Spain	13%	Europe & Central Asia	6m
#187	Portugal	13%	Europe & Central Asia	1m
#188	Italy	12%	Europe & Central Asia	7m
#189	San Marino	12%	Europe & Central Asia	4k
#190	Singapore	12%	East Asia & Pacific	690k
#191	Andorra	12%	Europe & Central Asia	10k
#192	South Korea	12%	East Asia & Pacific	6m
#193	Japan	11%	East Asia & Pacific	14m
#194	Puerto Rico	11%	Latin America	362k

Reading the table

This is the ranking that matters for anyone planning services rather than selling products. A country where four people in ten are Generation Alpha has a fundamentally different set of problems from one where one in ten is.

The spread is extraordinary: 49.1% in the Central African Republic against 11.3% in Puerto Rico. That is a factor of more than four between the youngest and oldest populations on the same list, in the same year.

Read this column next to life expectancy and it separates into two causes. In the Central African Republic, Somalia and Mali the share is high because fertility is high. In a few countries it is high partly because adults die younger, which compresses the older end of the pyramid. Those two situations look identical in this table and are not remotely the same thing.

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Frequently asked

Which country is the most Generation Alpha?

The Central African Republic, at about 49.1% of the population. Somalia (46.8%) and Mali (45.9%) follow closely.

Which large country has the fewest Alphas proportionally?

Japan, where about 11.4% of the population was born between 2010 and 2024 — roughly one person in nine. Puerto Rico is marginally lower at 11.3%.

Does a high Gen Alpha share mean high fertility?

Usually, but not always. A young age structure can also reflect lower life expectancy, which shortens the top of the population pyramid. Read this alongside the life-expectancy ranking.

How many countries are in this table?

This table ranks 194 countries with a comparable figure, out of the 194 countries profiled on AlphaBetaMinds. The countries in this table hold about 98% of the world population.

Can I reuse this data?

Yes, free of charge and commercially, with a credit to AlphaBetaMinds and a link to this page. The full dataset is also available as plain text at https://alphabetaminds.com/llms-countries.txt.

Other data tables

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Cite this table

AlphaBetaMinds (2026). Generation Alpha as a share of each country's population. Retrieved from https://alphabetaminds.com/data/gen-alpha-share-by-country

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Sources: UN World Population Prospects, World Bank Open Data, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, ITU. Figures are 2025–2026 estimates. Method on our methodology page.