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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Benin was 35.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.35 in 1979 and a minimum value of 35.45 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 44.30
1961 44.73
1962 45.13
1963 45.49
1964 45.81
1965 46.08
1966 46.30
1967 46.48
1968 46.62
1969 46.74
1970 46.84
1971 46.92
1972 47.00
1973 47.07
1974 47.14
1975 47.20
1976 47.26
1977 47.31
1978 47.34
1979 47.35
1980 47.34
1981 47.31
1982 47.26
1983 47.19
1984 47.10
1985 46.99
1986 46.86
1987 46.69
1988 46.50
1989 46.28
1990 46.03
1991 45.75
1992 45.43
1993 45.09
1994 44.73
1995 44.36
1996 43.97
1997 43.56
1998 43.16
1999 42.76
2000 42.37
2001 42.00
2002 41.65
2003 41.33
2004 41.02
2005 40.73
2006 40.45
2007 40.17
2008 39.88
2009 39.59
2010 39.28
2011 38.95
2012 38.59
2013 38.22
2014 37.83
2015 37.43
2016 37.03
2017 36.62
2018 36.22
2019 35.83
2020 35.45

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