St. Lucia - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in St. Lucia was 11.66 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.99 in 1960 and a minimum value of 11.66 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 48.99
1961 47.99
1962 46.88
1963 45.75
1964 44.64
1965 43.58
1966 42.56
1967 41.56
1968 40.58
1969 39.63
1970 38.79
1971 38.12
1972 37.65
1973 37.38
1974 37.28
1975 37.27
1976 37.25
1977 37.12
1978 36.82
1979 36.33
1980 35.66
1981 34.88
1982 34.05
1983 33.26
1984 32.51
1985 31.82
1986 31.16
1987 30.50
1988 29.80
1989 29.07
1990 28.29
1991 27.48
1992 26.64
1993 25.80
1994 24.93
1995 24.03
1996 23.07
1997 22.03
1998 20.93
1999 19.79
2000 18.65
2001 17.56
2002 16.58
2003 15.73
2004 15.04
2005 14.49
2006 14.08
2007 13.77
2008 13.51
2009 13.28
2010 13.08
2011 12.90
2012 12.75
2013 12.62
2014 12.50
2015 12.39
2016 12.27
2017 12.14
2018 12.00
2019 11.84
2020 11.66

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