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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Nigeria was 37.01 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.28 in 1976 and a minimum value of 37.01 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 46.34
1961 46.29
1962 46.21
1963 46.12
1964 46.02
1965 45.94
1966 45.90
1967 45.91
1968 45.99
1969 46.13
1970 46.32
1971 46.55
1972 46.77
1973 46.97
1974 47.13
1975 47.23
1976 47.28
1977 47.26
1978 47.20
1979 47.09
1980 46.94
1981 46.74
1982 46.51
1983 46.24
1984 45.96
1985 45.67
1986 45.38
1987 45.08
1988 44.79
1989 44.52
1990 44.27
1991 44.04
1992 43.85
1993 43.69
1994 43.56
1995 43.45
1996 43.37
1997 43.31
1998 43.26
1999 43.21
2000 43.16
2001 43.08
2002 42.99
2003 42.87
2004 42.72
2005 42.54
2006 42.33
2007 42.11
2008 41.87
2009 41.62
2010 41.34
2011 41.03
2012 40.67
2013 40.27
2014 39.83
2015 39.36
2016 38.87
2017 38.38
2018 37.91
2019 37.45
2020 37.01

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