The Bahamas - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in The Bahamas was 13.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34.38 in 1960 and a minimum value of 13.79 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 34.38
1961 34.03
1962 33.38
1963 32.42
1964 31.21
1965 29.88
1966 28.61
1967 27.57
1968 26.85
1969 26.47
1970 26.38
1971 26.44
1972 26.49
1973 26.42
1974 26.21
1975 25.91
1976 25.63
1977 25.48
1978 25.52
1979 25.75
1980 26.08
1981 26.39
1982 26.56
1983 26.53
1984 26.26
1985 25.82
1986 25.29
1987 24.78
1988 24.38
1989 24.09
1990 23.89
1991 23.73
1992 23.52
1993 23.20
1994 22.74
1995 22.13
1996 21.36
1997 20.46
1998 19.51
1999 18.53
2000 17.61
2001 16.81
2002 16.18
2003 15.72
2004 15.45
2005 15.33
2006 15.31
2007 15.31
2008 15.28
2009 15.19
2010 15.05
2011 14.86
2012 14.66
2013 14.49
2014 14.34
2015 14.22
2016 14.13
2017 14.05
2018 13.97
2019 13.88
2020 13.79

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