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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Dominica was 9.60 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.00 in 1972 and a minimum value of 9.60 in 2017.

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
1970 25.80
1972 37.00
1973 32.70
1974 29.20
1975 25.10
1976 24.70
1977 24.00
1978 24.00
1979 21.00
1980 24.80
1981 22.50
1982 23.30
1983 24.30
1984 20.80
1987 23.60
1990 23.00
1992 24.00
1994 21.60
1996 19.10
1997 21.50
1998 16.20
2002 15.40
2006 14.90
2010 13.20
2014 12.00
2017 9.60

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