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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Papua New Guinea was 26.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.43 in 1960 and a minimum value of 26.52 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 42.43
1961 42.31
1962 42.18
1963 42.03
1964 41.89
1965 41.74
1966 41.61
1967 41.49
1968 41.39
1969 41.30
1970 41.23
1971 41.16
1972 41.10
1973 41.03
1974 40.94
1975 40.81
1976 40.64
1977 40.42
1978 40.16
1979 39.84
1980 39.46
1981 39.02
1982 38.52
1983 37.98
1984 37.43
1985 36.87
1986 36.34
1987 35.86
1988 35.43
1989 35.08
1990 34.81
1991 34.64
1992 34.56
1993 34.53
1994 34.55
1995 34.58
1996 34.58
1997 34.54
1998 34.43
1999 34.25
2000 33.99
2001 33.67
2002 33.31
2003 32.93
2004 32.54
2005 32.14
2006 31.73
2007 31.31
2008 30.88
2009 30.43
2010 29.99
2011 29.55
2012 29.12
2013 28.72
2014 28.34
2015 27.99
2016 27.67
2017 27.36
2018 27.07
2019 26.79
2020 26.52

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