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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Malaysia was 16.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.69 in 1960 and a minimum value of 16.44 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 42.69
1961 42.32
1962 41.74
1963 40.94
1964 39.94
1965 38.81
1966 37.62
1967 36.47
1968 35.43
1969 34.55
1970 33.85
1971 33.30
1972 32.87
1973 32.51
1974 32.19
1975 31.93
1976 31.72
1977 31.56
1978 31.46
1979 31.39
1980 31.31
1981 31.20
1982 31.02
1983 30.78
1984 30.47
1985 30.09
1986 29.67
1987 29.25
1988 28.84
1989 28.46
1990 28.10
1991 27.76
1992 27.42
1993 27.06
1994 26.66
1995 26.18
1996 25.57
1997 24.83
1998 23.96
1999 22.99
2000 21.98
2001 20.98
2002 20.07
2003 19.28
2004 18.64
2005 18.16
2006 17.84
2007 17.62
2008 17.46
2009 17.35
2010 17.26
2011 17.19
2012 17.14
2013 17.11
2014 17.07
2015 17.02
2016 16.96
2017 16.87
2018 16.75
2019 16.61
2020 16.44

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