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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in The Gambia was 37.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.85 in 1960 and a minimum value of 37.59 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 48.85
1961 48.65
1962 48.48
1963 48.33
1964 48.21
1965 48.12
1966 48.03
1967 47.93
1968 47.82
1969 47.69
1970 47.57
1971 47.47
1972 47.43
1973 47.43
1974 47.49
1975 47.55
1976 47.59
1977 47.57
1978 47.47
1979 47.30
1980 47.10
1981 46.91
1982 46.77
1983 46.72
1984 46.75
1985 46.84
1986 46.97
1987 47.09
1988 47.14
1989 47.11
1990 46.98
1991 46.74
1992 46.40
1993 45.99
1994 45.52
1995 45.01
1996 44.49
1997 43.98
1998 43.50
1999 43.06
2000 42.68
2001 42.37
2002 42.10
2003 41.88
2004 41.68
2005 41.52
2006 41.38
2007 41.26
2008 41.14
2009 41.02
2010 40.88
2011 40.72
2012 40.52
2013 40.30
2014 40.03
2015 39.72
2016 39.36
2017 38.97
2018 38.54
2019 38.07
2020 37.59

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