Lao PDR - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Lao PDR was 22.66 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 43.34 in 1987 and a minimum value of 22.66 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 43.31
1961 43.15
1962 43.03
1963 42.94
1964 42.88
1965 42.85
1966 42.86
1967 42.88
1968 42.93
1969 42.98
1970 43.03
1971 43.06
1972 43.06
1973 43.04
1974 42.99
1975 42.92
1976 42.85
1977 42.79
1978 42.75
1979 42.74
1980 42.76
1981 42.83
1982 42.92
1983 43.03
1984 43.13
1985 43.23
1986 43.30
1987 43.34
1988 43.31
1989 43.18
1990 42.90
1991 42.42
1992 41.71
1993 40.79
1994 39.68
1995 38.42
1996 37.06
1997 35.67
1998 34.33
1999 33.08
2000 31.99
2001 31.07
2002 30.31
2003 29.70
2004 29.21
2005 28.81
2006 28.46
2007 28.12
2008 27.74
2009 27.33
2010 26.88
2011 26.40
2012 25.93
2013 25.50
2014 25.09
2015 24.71
2016 24.34
2017 23.96
2018 23.55
2019 23.12
2020 22.66

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