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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Finland was 8.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.50 in 1960 and a minimum value of 8.30 in 2019.

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 18.50
1961 18.40
1962 18.10
1963 18.20
1964 17.70
1965 17.10
1966 17.00
1967 16.80
1968 15.90
1969 14.60
1970 14.00
1971 13.20
1972 12.70
1973 12.20
1974 13.30
1975 13.90
1976 14.10
1977 13.90
1978 13.50
1979 13.30
1980 13.20
1981 13.20
1982 13.70
1983 13.80
1984 13.30
1985 12.80
1986 12.30
1987 12.10
1988 12.80
1989 12.80
1990 13.10
1991 13.00
1992 13.20
1993 12.80
1994 12.80
1995 12.30
1996 11.80
1997 11.50
1998 11.10
1999 11.10
2000 11.00
2001 10.80
2002 10.70
2003 10.90
2004 11.00
2005 11.00
2006 11.20
2007 11.10
2008 11.20
2009 11.30
2010 11.40
2011 11.10
2012 11.00
2013 10.70
2014 10.50
2015 10.10
2016 9.60
2017 9.10
2018 8.60
2019 8.30
2020 8.40

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