South Africa - Birth rate
Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in South Africa was 21.18 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.27 in 1960 and a minimum value of 21.18 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 | 42.27 |
| 1961 | 41.99 |
| 1962 | 41.61 |
| 1963 | 41.11 |
| 1964 | 40.52 |
| 1965 | 39.88 |
| 1966 | 39.27 |
| 1967 | 38.73 |
| 1968 | 38.32 |
| 1969 | 38.02 |
| 1970 | 37.84 |
| 1971 | 37.71 |
| 1972 | 37.58 |
| 1973 | 37.40 |
| 1974 | 37.16 |
| 1975 | 36.84 |
| 1976 | 36.47 |
| 1977 | 36.08 |
| 1978 | 35.69 |
| 1979 | 35.31 |
| 1980 | 34.92 |
| 1981 | 34.53 |
| 1982 | 34.12 |
| 1983 | 33.68 |
| 1984 | 33.19 |
| 1985 | 32.66 |
| 1986 | 32.06 |
| 1987 | 31.41 |
| 1988 | 30.71 |
| 1989 | 29.99 |
| 1990 | 29.25 |
| 1991 | 28.53 |
| 1992 | 27.83 |
| 1993 | 27.19 |
| 1994 | 26.60 |
| 1995 | 26.09 |
| 1996 | 25.66 |
| 1997 | 25.31 |
| 1998 | 25.01 |
| 1999 | 24.76 |
| 2000 | 24.53 |
| 2001 | 24.29 |
| 2002 | 24.03 |
| 2003 | 23.72 |
| 2004 | 23.37 |
| 2005 | 22.99 |
| 2006 | 22.59 |
| 2007 | 22.19 |
| 2008 | 21.82 |
| 2009 | 21.48 |
| 2010 | 21.18 |
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Population
