Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) - Country Ranking - Central America & the Caribbean

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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Rank Country Value Year
1 Guatemala 23.85 2020
2 Haiti 23.58 2020
3 Honduras 21.06 2020
4 Belize 20.25 2020
5 Nicaragua 19.79 2020
6 Dominican Republic 18.86 2020
7 Panama 18.45 2020
8 El Salvador 17.83 2020
9 Grenada 15.90 2020
10 Jamaica 15.70 2020
11 Antigua and Barbuda 14.88 2020
12 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 13.94 2020
13 The Bahamas 13.79 2020
14 Costa Rica 13.40 2020
15 Cayman Islands 12.60 2020
16 Trinidad and Tobago 12.24 2020
17 St. Lucia 11.66 2020
18 St. Kitts and Nevis 11.20 2019
19 Barbados 10.60 2020
20 Cuba 9.78 2020
21 Dominica 9.60 2017
22 Puerto Rico 5.60 2020

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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