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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Ghana was 28.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.73 in 1963 and a minimum value of 28.60 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 47.32
1961 47.52
1962 47.66
1963 47.73
1964 47.72
1965 47.63
1966 47.47
1967 47.24
1968 46.95
1969 46.61
1970 46.23
1971 45.83
1972 45.40
1973 44.97
1974 44.54
1975 44.14
1976 43.77
1977 43.46
1978 43.18
1979 42.95
1980 42.76
1981 42.60
1982 42.46
1983 42.32
1984 42.15
1985 41.95
1986 41.69
1987 41.36
1988 40.97
1989 40.52
1990 40.04
1991 39.54
1992 39.05
1993 38.59
1994 38.17
1995 37.77
1996 37.38
1997 36.99
1998 36.57
1999 36.13
2000 35.67
2001 35.21
2002 34.77
2003 34.36
2004 33.98
2005 33.64
2006 33.35
2007 33.08
2008 32.85
2009 32.62
2010 32.39
2011 32.13
2012 31.83
2013 31.50
2014 31.13
2015 30.71
2016 30.28
2017 29.84
2018 29.41
2019 28.99
2020 28.60

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