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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Netherlands was 9.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.30 in 1961 and a minimum value of 9.70 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 20.80
1961 21.30
1962 20.90
1963 20.90
1964 20.70
1965 19.90
1966 19.20
1967 18.90
1968 18.60
1969 19.20
1970 18.30
1971 17.20
1972 16.10
1973 14.50
1974 13.70
1975 13.00
1976 12.90
1977 12.50
1978 12.60
1979 12.50
1980 12.80
1981 12.50
1982 12.00
1983 11.80
1984 12.10
1985 12.30
1986 12.70
1987 12.70
1988 12.60
1989 12.70
1990 13.20
1991 13.20
1992 13.00
1993 12.80
1994 12.70
1995 12.30
1996 12.20
1997 12.30
1998 12.70
1999 12.70
2000 13.00
2001 12.60
2002 12.50
2003 12.30
2004 11.90
2005 11.50
2006 11.30
2007 11.10
2008 11.20
2009 11.20
2010 11.10
2011 10.80
2012 10.50
2013 10.20
2014 10.40
2015 10.10
2016 10.10
2017 9.90
2018 9.80
2019 9.80
2020 9.70

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