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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Korea was 5.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.28 in 1960 and a minimum value of 5.30 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 42.28
1961 41.01
1962 39.58
1963 38.07
1964 36.55
1965 35.12
1966 33.82
1967 32.65
1968 31.60
1969 30.65
1970 31.20
1971 31.20
1972 28.40
1973 28.30
1974 26.60
1975 24.80
1976 22.20
1977 22.70
1978 20.30
1979 23.00
1980 22.60
1981 22.40
1982 21.60
1983 19.30
1984 16.70
1985 16.10
1986 15.40
1987 15.00
1988 15.10
1989 15.10
1990 15.20
1991 16.40
1992 16.70
1993 16.00
1994 16.00
1995 15.70
1996 15.00
1997 14.50
1998 13.70
1999 13.20
2000 13.50
2001 11.70
2002 10.30
2003 10.20
2004 9.80
2005 9.00
2006 9.20
2007 10.10
2008 9.40
2009 9.00
2010 9.40
2011 9.40
2012 9.60
2013 8.60
2014 8.60
2015 8.60
2016 7.90
2017 7.00
2018 6.40
2019 5.90
2020 5.30

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