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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Iraq was 28.14 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 46.30 in 1968 and a minimum value of 28.14 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 42.16
1961 42.54
1962 43.17
1963 43.94
1964 44.74
1965 45.45
1966 45.97
1967 46.26
1968 46.30
1969 46.09
1970 45.64
1971 45.03
1972 44.33
1973 43.64
1974 42.99
1975 42.41
1976 41.88
1977 41.38
1978 40.89
1979 40.42
1980 39.97
1981 39.58
1982 39.24
1983 38.97
1984 38.76
1985 38.59
1986 38.44
1987 38.30
1988 38.14
1989 37.95
1990 37.76
1991 37.56
1992 37.38
1993 37.22
1994 37.08
1995 36.95
1996 36.81
1997 36.63
1998 36.41
1999 36.14
2000 35.82
2001 35.47
2002 35.10
2003 34.74
2004 34.40
2005 34.09
2006 33.85
2007 33.68
2008 33.56
2009 33.46
2010 33.35
2011 33.15
2012 32.83
2013 32.38
2014 31.79
2015 31.11
2016 30.39
2017 29.69
2018 29.08
2019 28.56
2020 28.14

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