Saudi Arabia - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Saudi Arabia was 16.81 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.58 in 1960 and a minimum value of 16.81 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 47.58
1961 47.58
1962 47.56
1963 47.51
1964 47.44
1965 47.34
1966 47.24
1967 47.12
1968 47.01
1969 46.90
1970 46.77
1971 46.61
1972 46.40
1973 46.14
1974 45.84
1975 45.51
1976 45.18
1977 44.89
1978 44.63
1979 44.39
1980 44.12
1981 43.77
1982 43.29
1983 42.67
1984 41.89
1985 40.98
1986 39.97
1987 38.92
1988 37.86
1989 36.82
1990 35.80
1991 34.78
1992 33.74
1993 32.67
1994 31.59
1995 30.53
1996 29.51
1997 28.58
1998 27.74
1999 27.00
2000 26.38
2001 25.85
2002 25.40
2003 24.99
2004 24.61
2005 24.24
2006 23.85
2007 23.46
2008 23.04
2009 22.60
2010 22.12
2011 21.61
2012 21.08
2013 20.53
2014 19.97
2015 19.41
2016 18.86
2017 18.32
2018 17.80
2019 17.30
2020 16.81

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