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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Malta was 8.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.20 in 1960 and a minimum value of 8.60 in 2019.

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 26.20
1961 23.60
1962 23.20
1963 20.70
1964 19.90
1965 17.70
1966 16.90
1967 17.00
1968 16.70
1969 16.70
1970 17.60
1971 18.40
1972 17.80
1973 17.40
1974 18.00
1975 18.80
1976 18.60
1977 18.90
1978 18.20
1979 18.60
1980 17.70
1981 16.60
1982 18.10
1983 17.10
1984 16.90
1985 16.10
1986 15.30
1987 15.40
1988 15.90
1989 15.90
1990 15.20
1991 14.60
1992 14.90
1993 13.90
1994 12.90
1995 12.20
1996 13.30
1997 12.70
1998 12.10
1999 11.40
2000 11.30
2001 10.10
2002 9.90
2003 10.20
2004 9.70
2005 9.60
2006 9.30
2007 9.30
2008 9.80
2009 9.80
2010 9.40
2011 10.00
2012 9.80
2013 9.50
2014 9.60
2015 9.70
2016 9.80
2017 9.20
2018 9.20
2019 8.60
2020 8.60

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