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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Malawi was 33.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 52.23 in 1967 and a minimum value of 33.42 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 51.41
1961 51.58
1962 51.74
1963 51.88
1964 52.02
1965 52.12
1966 52.20
1967 52.23
1968 52.23
1969 52.19
1970 52.13
1971 52.06
1972 51.99
1973 51.93
1974 51.88
1975 51.83
1976 51.78
1977 51.71
1978 51.61
1979 51.48
1980 51.34
1981 51.21
1982 51.09
1983 50.98
1984 50.86
1985 50.70
1986 50.42
1987 50.00
1988 49.43
1989 48.73
1990 47.94
1991 47.13
1992 46.37
1993 45.71
1994 45.18
1995 44.78
1996 44.50
1997 44.28
1998 44.08
1999 43.90
2000 43.73
2001 43.57
2002 43.45
2003 43.34
2004 43.22
2005 43.05
2006 42.77
2007 42.36
2008 41.81
2009 41.11
2010 40.29
2011 39.38
2012 38.44
2013 37.51
2014 36.63
2015 35.84
2016 35.16
2017 34.59
2018 34.12
2019 33.73
2020 33.42

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