Sri Lanka - Birth rate

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Sri Lanka was 15.25 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.10 in 1960 and a minimum value of 15.25 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 37.10
1961 36.44
1962 35.76
1963 35.11
1964 34.50
1965 33.93
1966 33.35
1967 32.73
1968 32.05
1969 31.33
1970 30.60
1971 29.92
1972 29.32
1973 28.83
1974 28.45
1975 28.17
1976 27.97
1977 27.79
1978 27.59
1979 27.34
1980 27.00
1981 26.55
1982 25.99
1983 25.34
1984 24.62
1985 23.86
1986 23.09
1987 22.36
1988 21.69
1989 21.11
1990 20.62
1991 20.21
1992 19.85
1993 19.53
1994 19.23
1995 18.97
1996 18.76
1997 18.60
1998 18.51
1999 18.46
2000 18.46
2001 18.49
2002 18.54
2003 18.57
2004 18.59
2005 18.58
2006 18.51
2007 18.40
2008 18.25
2009 18.06
2010 17.84
2011 17.59
2012 17.34
2013 17.09
2014 16.85
2015 16.61
2016 16.36
2017 16.11
2018 15.83
2019 15.54
2020 15.25

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population