Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 13.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.77 in 1968 and a minimum value of 13.78 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 37.14
1961 35.90
1962 34.98
1963 34.58
1964 34.79
1965 35.51
1966 36.49
1967 37.34
1968 37.77
1969 37.66
1970 36.88
1971 35.42
1972 33.44
1973 31.14
1974 28.67
1975 26.27
1976 24.16
1977 22.47
1978 21.29
1979 20.65
1980 20.47
1981 20.62
1982 20.89
1983 21.10
1984 21.19
1985 21.14
1986 20.99
1987 20.82
1988 20.72
1989 20.67
1990 20.66
1991 20.65
1992 20.61
1993 20.50
1994 20.31
1995 20.03
1996 19.69
1997 19.29
1998 18.87
1999 18.43
2000 17.97
2001 17.50
2002 17.01
2003 16.51
2004 16.01
2005 15.53
2006 15.09
2007 14.72
2008 14.41
2009 14.18
2010 14.02
2011 13.93
2012 13.90
2013 13.89
2014 13.90
2015 13.91
2016 13.92
2017 13.91
2018 13.89
2019 13.85
2020 13.78

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