Nigeria - Birth rate

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Nigeria was 39.89 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.15 in 1977 and a minimum value of 39.89 in 2010.

Definition: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births per 1,000 midyear population.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 46.12
1961 46.05
1962 45.96
1963 45.85
1964 45.73
1965 45.64
1966 45.59
1967 45.60
1968 45.68
1969 45.83
1970 46.03
1971 46.27
1972 46.51
1973 46.73
1974 46.92
1975 47.05
1976 47.13
1977 47.15
1978 47.12
1979 47.05
1980 46.93
1981 46.75
1982 46.53
1983 46.27
1984 45.97
1985 45.65
1986 45.30
1987 44.94
1988 44.56
1989 44.19
1990 43.83
1991 43.51
1992 43.22
1993 42.97
1994 42.75
1995 42.57
1996 42.42
1997 42.28
1998 42.15
1999 42.02
2000 41.88
2001 41.72
2002 41.55
2003 41.37
2004 41.17
2005 40.97
2006 40.76
2007 40.54
2008 40.33
2009 40.11
2010 39.89

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population