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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Samoa was 23.86 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.14 in 1960 and a minimum value of 23.86 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 48.14
1961 47.77
1962 47.32
1963 46.76
1964 46.08
1965 45.31
1966 44.46
1967 43.59
1968 42.74
1969 41.95
1970 41.23
1971 40.58
1972 40.00
1973 39.48
1974 39.01
1975 38.59
1976 38.22
1977 37.89
1978 37.58
1979 37.29
1980 36.99
1981 36.69
1982 36.38
1983 36.05
1984 35.69
1985 35.31
1986 34.90
1987 34.46
1988 34.01
1989 33.56
1990 33.13
1991 32.75
1992 32.44
1993 32.19
1994 32.01
1995 31.85
1996 31.70
1997 31.51
1998 31.26
1999 30.95
2000 30.62
2001 30.29
2002 30.01
2003 29.79
2004 29.64
2005 29.51
2006 29.37
2007 29.16
2008 28.87
2009 28.48
2010 28.00
2011 27.46
2012 26.91
2013 26.37
2014 25.87
2015 25.43
2016 25.04
2017 24.69
2018 24.38
2019 24.10
2020 23.86

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