Australia - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Australia was 11.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.90 in 1961 and a minimum value of 11.50 in 2020.

Definition: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 22.40
1961 22.90
1962 22.10
1963 21.50
1964 20.50
1965 19.60
1966 19.80
1967 19.40
1968 20.10
1969 20.40
1970 20.60
1971 21.40
1972 20.10
1973 18.50
1974 17.80
1975 16.70
1976 16.20
1977 15.90
1978 15.60
1979 15.30
1980 15.30
1981 15.70
1982 15.80
1983 15.80
1984 15.00
1985 15.70
1986 15.00
1987 15.40
1988 14.90
1989 14.90
1990 15.40
1991 14.90
1992 15.10
1993 14.70
1994 14.50
1995 14.20
1996 13.90
1997 13.60
1998 13.30
1999 13.10
2000 13.00
2001 12.70
2002 12.80
2003 12.60
2004 12.30
2005 12.80
2006 12.90
2007 14.10
2008 14.00
2009 13.90
2010 13.70
2011 13.60
2012 13.70
2013 13.30
2014 13.20
2015 12.90
2016 12.90
2017 12.60
2018 12.60
2019 12.10
2020 11.50

Limitations and Exceptions: Vital registers are the preferred source for these data, but in many developing countries systems for registering births and deaths are absent or incomplete because of deficiencies in the coverage of events or geographic areas. Many developing countries carry out special household surveys that ask respondents about recent births and deaths. Estimates derived in this way are subject to sampling errors and recall errors.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Vital rates are based on data from birth and death registration systems, censuses, and sample surveys by national statistical offices and other organizations, or on demographic analysis. Data for the most recent year for some high-income countries are provisional estimates based on vital registers. The estimates for many countries are projections based on extrapolations of levels and trends from earlier years or interpolations of population estimates and projections from the United Nations Population Division.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population