South Africa - Birth rate

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in South Africa was 19.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 41.08 in 1960 and a minimum value of 19.77 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 41.08
1961 40.88
1962 40.66
1963 40.42
1964 40.15
1965 39.87
1966 39.59
1967 39.31
1968 39.05
1969 38.80
1970 38.54
1971 38.27
1972 37.96
1973 37.61
1974 37.24
1975 36.88
1976 36.56
1977 36.32
1978 36.17
1979 36.08
1980 36.03
1981 35.98
1982 35.88
1983 35.68
1984 35.36
1985 34.87
1986 34.21
1987 33.39
1988 32.45
1989 31.41
1990 30.31
1991 29.19
1992 28.10
1993 27.06
1994 26.11
1995 25.28
1996 24.57
1997 23.98
1998 23.50
1999 23.12
2000 22.85
2001 22.72
2002 22.69
2003 22.76
2004 22.90
2005 23.07
2006 23.24
2007 23.37
2008 23.43
2009 23.42
2010 23.31
2011 23.10
2012 22.82
2013 22.48
2014 22.11
2015 21.72
2016 21.31
2017 20.91
2018 20.51
2019 20.13
2020 19.77

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population