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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Zambia was 35.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.87 in 1962 and a minimum value of 35.44 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 49.67
1961 49.81
1962 49.87
1963 49.87
1964 49.79
1965 49.68
1966 49.56
1967 49.46
1968 49.40
1969 49.39
1970 49.41
1971 49.45
1972 49.47
1973 49.45
1974 49.38
1975 49.25
1976 49.06
1977 48.81
1978 48.53
1979 48.23
1980 47.91
1981 47.61
1982 47.32
1983 47.05
1984 46.82
1985 46.62
1986 46.43
1987 46.25
1988 46.07
1989 45.89
1990 45.73
1991 45.58
1992 45.46
1993 45.38
1994 45.32
1995 45.30
1996 45.31
1997 45.33
1998 45.34
1999 45.33
2000 45.27
2001 45.14
2002 44.94
2003 44.64
2004 44.27
2005 43.82
2006 43.33
2007 42.80
2008 42.27
2009 41.74
2010 41.19
2011 40.62
2012 40.00
2013 39.34
2014 38.65
2015 37.95
2016 37.29
2017 36.70
2018 36.19
2019 35.78
2020 35.44

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