South Asia - Birth rate

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in South Asia was 18.92 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.81 in 1960 and a minimum value of 18.92 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 42.81
1961 42.61
1962 42.40
1963 42.16
1964 41.91
1965 41.64
1966 41.37
1967 41.10
1968 40.82
1969 40.55
1970 40.28
1971 39.99
1972 39.70
1973 39.39
1974 39.07
1975 38.75
1976 38.46
1977 38.18
1978 37.93
1979 37.69
1980 37.46
1981 37.20
1982 36.91
1983 36.57
1984 36.17
1985 35.72
1986 35.21
1987 34.66
1988 34.08
1989 33.50
1990 32.91
1991 32.33
1992 31.76
1993 31.21
1994 30.68
1995 30.16
1996 29.66
1997 29.15
1998 28.65
1999 28.15
2000 27.65
2001 27.16
2002 26.67
2003 26.19
2004 25.70
2005 25.20
2006 24.68
2007 24.14
2008 23.57
2009 22.99
2010 22.41
2011 21.87
2012 21.36
2013 20.92
2014 20.53
2015 20.20
2016 19.91
2017 19.65
2018 19.41
2019 19.16
2020 18.92

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population