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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Botswana was 23.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.28 in 1960 and a minimum value of 23.65 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 47.28
1961 47.06
1962 46.82
1963 46.59
1964 46.36
1965 46.15
1966 45.94
1967 45.73
1968 45.52
1969 45.31
1970 45.12
1971 44.96
1972 44.83
1973 44.75
1974 44.70
1975 44.66
1976 44.64
1977 44.62
1978 44.55
1979 44.41
1980 44.15
1981 43.72
1982 43.09
1983 42.29
1984 41.31
1985 40.22
1986 39.07
1987 37.92
1988 36.83
1989 35.83
1990 34.93
1991 34.12
1992 33.35
1993 32.61
1994 31.89
1995 31.23
1996 30.65
1997 30.16
1998 29.78
1999 29.50
2000 29.30
2001 29.16
2002 29.05
2003 28.94
2004 28.80
2005 28.65
2006 28.50
2007 28.35
2008 28.21
2009 28.08
2010 27.93
2011 27.75
2012 27.52
2013 27.23
2014 26.87
2015 26.44
2016 25.94
2017 25.40
2018 24.82
2019 24.23
2020 23.65

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