United States - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in United States was 10.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.70 in 1960 and a minimum value of 10.90 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 23.70
1961 23.30
1962 22.40
1963 21.70
1964 21.10
1965 19.40
1966 18.40
1967 17.80
1968 17.60
1969 17.90
1970 18.40
1971 17.20
1972 15.60
1973 14.80
1974 14.80
1975 14.60
1976 14.60
1977 15.10
1978 15.00
1979 15.60
1980 15.90
1981 15.80
1982 15.90
1983 15.60
1984 15.60
1985 15.80
1986 15.60
1987 15.70
1988 16.00
1989 16.40
1990 16.70
1991 16.20
1992 15.80
1993 15.40
1994 15.00
1995 14.60
1996 14.40
1997 14.20
1998 14.30
1999 14.20
2000 14.40
2001 14.10
2002 14.00
2003 14.10
2004 14.00
2005 14.00
2006 14.30
2007 14.30
2008 14.00
2009 13.50
2010 13.00
2011 12.70
2012 12.60
2013 12.40
2014 12.50
2015 12.40
2016 12.20
2017 11.80
2018 11.60
2019 11.40
2020 10.90

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