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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Belgium was 9.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.30 in 1961 and a minimum value of 9.90 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 16.80
1961 17.30
1962 16.80
1963 17.10
1964 17.20
1965 16.40
1966 15.90
1967 15.30
1968 14.80
1969 14.70
1970 14.70
1971 14.60
1972 14.00
1973 13.30
1974 12.70
1975 12.20
1976 12.30
1977 12.40
1978 12.50
1979 12.60
1980 12.60
1981 12.60
1982 12.20
1983 11.90
1984 11.70
1985 11.60
1986 11.90
1987 11.90
1988 12.10
1989 12.20
1990 12.40
1991 12.60
1992 12.40
1993 12.00
1994 11.50
1995 11.40
1996 11.50
1997 11.40
1998 11.20
1999 11.20
2000 11.40
2001 11.20
2002 10.90
2003 11.00
2004 11.30
2005 11.40
2006 11.60
2007 11.70
2008 11.90
2009 11.80
2010 11.90
2011 11.70
2012 11.50
2013 11.30
2014 11.20
2015 10.80
2016 10.80
2017 10.50
2018 10.40
2019 10.20
2020 9.90

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