Costa Rica - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Costa Rica was 13.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45.90 in 1960 and a minimum value of 13.40 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 45.90
1961 45.31
1962 44.44
1963 43.31
1964 41.97
1965 40.44
1966 38.79
1967 37.08
1968 35.40
1969 33.82
1970 32.43
1971 31.30
1972 30.45
1973 29.86
1974 29.51
1975 29.39
1976 29.43
1977 29.57
1978 29.72
1979 29.85
1980 29.93
1981 29.96
1982 29.95
1983 29.92
1984 29.84
1985 29.69
1986 29.45
1987 29.10
1988 28.64
1989 28.06
1990 27.39
1991 26.64
1992 25.84
1993 25.01
1994 24.18
1995 23.35
1996 22.53
1997 21.70
1998 20.89
1999 20.09
2000 19.34
2001 18.65
2002 18.04
2003 17.51
2004 17.07
2005 16.72
2006 16.44
2007 16.23
2008 16.04
2009 15.88
2010 15.72
2011 15.55
2012 15.38
2013 15.19
2014 14.99
2015 14.76
2016 14.51
2017 14.25
2018 13.97
2019 13.69
2020 13.40

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