European Union - Birth rate

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in European Union was 9.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.74 in 1960 and a minimum value of 9.04 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 18.74
1961 18.63
1962 18.34
1963 18.40
1964 18.47
1965 17.91
1966 17.62
1967 17.88
1968 17.52
1969 17.02
1970 16.39
1971 16.22
1972 15.70
1973 15.30
1974 15.49
1975 15.12
1976 14.99
1977 14.65
1978 14.38
1979 14.16
1980 13.97
1981 13.59
1982 13.43
1983 13.12
1984 12.99
1985 12.82
1986 12.70
1987 12.57
1988 12.57
1989 12.30
1990 12.16
1991 11.79
1992 11.50
1993 11.20
1994 10.82
1995 10.52
1996 10.52
1997 10.49
1998 10.35
1999 10.32
2000 10.46
2001 10.22
2002 10.14
2003 10.16
2004 10.26
2005 10.23
2006 10.34
2007 10.39
2008 10.64
2009 10.48
2010 10.45
2011 10.15
2012 10.03
2013 9.75
2014 9.86
2015 9.74
2016 9.84
2017 9.72
2018 9.51
2019 9.33
2020 9.04

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population