Hong Kong SAR, China - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 5.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35.25 in 1960 and a minimum value of 5.80 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 35.25
1961 35.00
1962 34.00
1963 33.50
1964 30.70
1965 28.10
1966 25.30
1967 23.70
1968 21.70
1969 21.30
1970 20.00
1971 19.70
1972 19.50
1973 19.40
1974 19.10
1975 17.90
1976 17.40
1977 17.50
1978 17.30
1979 16.80
1980 17.00
1981 16.80
1982 16.40
1983 15.60
1984 14.40
1985 14.00
1986 13.00
1987 12.60
1988 13.40
1989 12.30
1990 12.00
1991 12.00
1992 12.30
1993 12.00
1994 11.90
1995 11.20
1996 9.90
1997 9.10
1998 8.10
1999 7.80
2000 8.10
2001 7.20
2002 7.10
2003 6.90
2004 7.20
2005 8.40
2006 9.60
2007 10.20
2008 11.30
2009 11.80
2010 12.60
2011 13.50
2012 12.80
2013 8.00
2014 8.60
2015 8.20
2016 8.30
2017 7.70
2018 7.20
2019 7.00
2020 5.80

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