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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Switzerland was 9.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.50 in 1964 and a minimum value of 9.80 in 2003.

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 17.70
1961 18.30
1962 18.70
1963 19.30
1964 19.50
1965 19.10
1966 18.50
1967 17.90
1968 17.30
1969 16.70
1970 16.10
1971 15.50
1972 14.60
1973 13.90
1974 13.30
1975 12.40
1976 11.80
1977 11.60
1978 11.40
1979 11.40
1980 11.70
1981 11.60
1982 11.70
1983 11.50
1984 11.60
1985 11.50
1986 11.70
1987 11.70
1988 12.20
1989 12.20
1990 12.50
1991 12.70
1992 12.60
1993 12.10
1994 11.90
1995 11.70
1996 11.70
1997 11.40
1998 11.10
1999 11.00
2000 10.90
2001 10.00
2002 9.90
2003 9.80
2004 9.90
2005 9.80
2006 9.80
2007 9.90
2008 10.00
2009 10.10
2010 10.30
2011 10.20
2012 10.30
2013 10.20
2014 10.40
2015 10.50
2016 10.50
2017 10.30
2018 10.30
2019 10.00
2020 9.90

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