Faroe Islands - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Faroe Islands was 12.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.10 in 1970 and a minimum value of 12.00 in 2011.

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
1970 21.10
1971 20.20
1972 20.50
1973 20.50
1974 19.90
1975 19.20
1976 18.30
1977 18.20
1978 17.50
1979 18.40
1980 17.10
1981 17.20
1982 16.40
1983 15.40
1984 15.40
1985 16.30
1986 17.20
1987 16.80
1988 18.40
1989 19.50
1990 19.90
1991 18.30
1992 17.20
1993 16.60
1994 15.00
1995 14.80
1996 15.50
1997 15.10
1998 14.00
1999 13.90
2000 15.10
2001 13.60
2002 15.00
2003 14.70
2004 14.80
2005 14.70
2006 13.70
2007 14.00
2008 13.80
2009 12.60
2010 13.20
2011 12.00
2012 12.90
2013 13.00
2014 13.20
2015 12.40
2016 13.60
2017 13.10
2018 13.40
2019 13.20
2020 12.90

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