High income - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in High income was 9.67 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.58 in 1960 and a minimum value of 9.67 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 21.58
1961 21.41
1962 21.07
1963 20.92
1964 20.77
1965 20.04
1966 18.95
1967 19.10
1968 18.74
1969 18.54
1970 18.44
1971 18.14
1972 17.30
1973 16.85
1974 16.61
1975 16.10
1976 15.86
1977 15.69
1978 15.42
1979 15.58
1980 15.51
1981 15.27
1982 15.19
1983 14.87
1984 14.63
1985 14.52
1986 14.24
1987 14.18
1988 14.27
1989 14.15
1990 14.24
1991 13.98
1992 13.73
1993 13.39
1994 13.14
1995 12.81
1996 12.68
1997 12.52
1998 12.36
1999 12.21
2000 12.32
2001 11.97
2002 11.82
2003 11.82
2004 11.75
2005 11.66
2006 11.86
2007 11.96
2008 11.97
2009 11.71
2010 11.57
2011 11.38
2012 11.32
2013 11.00
2014 11.03
2015 10.93
2016 10.82
2017 10.52
2018 10.29
2019 10.04
2020 9.67

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