New Zealand - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in New Zealand was 11.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27.10 in 1961 and a minimum value of 11.32 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 26.50
1961 27.10
1962 26.20
1963 25.50
1964 24.20
1965 22.90
1966 22.50
1967 22.50
1968 22.70
1969 22.30
1970 22.10
1971 22.60
1972 21.80
1973 20.50
1974 19.60
1975 18.30
1976 17.70
1977 17.30
1978 16.30
1979 16.80
1980 16.20
1981 16.20
1982 15.80
1983 15.80
1984 16.00
1985 15.90
1986 16.30
1987 16.80
1988 17.30
1989 17.50
1990 17.50
1991 17.40
1992 17.28
1993 16.53
1994 15.95
1995 15.77
1996 15.34
1997 15.23
1998 14.51
1999 14.87
2000 14.66
2001 14.36
2002 13.67
2003 13.94
2004 14.20
2005 13.96
2006 14.14
2007 15.15
2008 15.10
2009 14.53
2010 14.68
2011 14.00
2012 13.87
2013 13.20
2014 12.67
2015 13.23
2016 12.60
2017 12.38
2018 11.84
2019 11.96
2020 11.32

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