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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Italy was 6.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.70 in 1964 and a minimum value of 6.80 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 18.10
1961 18.40
1962 18.40
1963 18.70
1964 19.70
1965 19.00
1966 18.70
1967 17.90
1968 17.70
1969 17.40
1970 16.70
1971 16.80
1972 16.30
1973 16.00
1974 15.80
1975 14.90
1976 14.00
1977 13.20
1978 12.60
1979 11.90
1980 11.30
1981 11.00
1982 10.90
1983 10.60
1984 10.40
1985 10.20
1986 9.80
1987 9.70
1988 10.10
1989 9.90
1990 10.00
1991 9.90
1992 10.00
1993 9.70
1994 9.40
1995 9.20
1996 9.30
1997 9.40
1998 9.40
1999 9.40
2000 9.50
2001 9.40
2002 9.40
2003 9.50
2004 9.80
2005 9.60
2006 9.60
2007 9.70
2008 9.80
2009 9.60
2010 9.50
2011 9.20
2012 9.00
2013 8.50
2014 8.30
2015 8.00
2016 7.80
2017 7.60
2018 7.30
2019 7.00
2020 6.80

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