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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Ireland was 11.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.60 in 1972 and a minimum value of 11.20 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 21.50
1961 21.20
1962 21.80
1963 22.20
1964 22.40
1965 22.10
1966 21.50
1967 21.10
1968 20.90
1969 21.50
1970 21.80
1971 22.60
1972 22.60
1973 22.30
1974 22.00
1975 21.10
1976 20.90
1977 21.00
1978 21.10
1979 21.50
1980 21.70
1981 20.90
1982 20.30
1983 19.10
1984 18.10
1985 17.60
1986 17.40
1987 16.50
1988 15.50
1989 14.80
1990 15.10
1991 14.90
1992 14.40
1993 13.80
1994 13.40
1995 13.50
1996 13.90
1997 14.40
1998 14.50
1999 14.40
2000 14.40
2001 15.00
2002 15.40
2003 15.40
2004 15.20
2005 14.80
2006 15.30
2007 16.20
2008 16.70
2009 16.70
2010 16.50
2011 16.20
2012 15.60
2013 14.90
2014 14.40
2015 13.90
2016 13.40
2017 12.90
2018 12.50
2019 12.00
2020 11.20

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