Dem. Rep. Congo - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Dem. Rep. Congo was 40.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 46.90 in 1965 and a minimum value of 40.11 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 46.65
1961 46.73
1962 46.80
1963 46.86
1964 46.89
1965 46.90
1966 46.89
1967 46.85
1968 46.80
1969 46.73
1970 46.65
1971 46.57
1972 46.50
1973 46.44
1974 46.39
1975 46.36
1976 46.34
1977 46.33
1978 46.32
1979 46.31
1980 46.30
1981 46.28
1982 46.25
1983 46.23
1984 46.20
1985 46.16
1986 46.13
1987 46.11
1988 46.09
1989 46.09
1990 46.08
1991 46.08
1992 46.09
1993 46.09
1994 46.08
1995 46.07
1996 46.06
1997 46.04
1998 46.02
1999 46.00
2000 45.97
2001 45.93
2002 45.89
2003 45.84
2004 45.78
2005 45.70
2006 45.60
2007 45.47
2008 45.31
2009 45.11
2010 44.86
2011 44.55
2012 44.19
2013 43.77
2014 43.31
2015 42.81
2016 42.28
2017 41.73
2018 41.18
2019 40.64
2020 40.11

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