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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Kenya was 27.94 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 51.16 in 1960 and a minimum value of 27.94 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 51.16
1961 51.07
1962 50.98
1963 50.89
1964 50.81
1965 50.75
1966 50.72
1967 50.73
1968 50.77
1969 50.83
1970 50.89
1971 50.94
1972 50.96
1973 50.94
1974 50.86
1975 50.73
1976 50.56
1977 50.36
1978 50.13
1979 49.86
1980 49.56
1981 49.22
1982 48.82
1983 48.35
1984 47.81
1985 47.17
1986 46.41
1987 45.53
1988 44.56
1989 43.54
1990 42.56
1991 41.70
1992 41.02
1993 40.54
1994 40.28
1995 40.20
1996 40.23
1997 40.28
1998 40.29
1999 40.21
2000 40.04
2001 39.78
2002 39.47
2003 39.14
2004 38.77
2005 38.37
2006 37.89
2007 37.33
2008 36.68
2009 35.94
2010 35.13
2011 34.25
2012 33.33
2013 32.42
2014 31.52
2015 30.69
2016 29.94
2017 29.30
2018 28.75
2019 28.30
2020 27.94

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