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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in World was 17.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.06 in 1963 and a minimum value of 17.33 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 31.75
1961 31.04
1962 34.89
1963 36.06
1964 34.95
1965 34.34
1966 33.31
1967 33.04
1968 33.18
1969 32.67
1970 32.38
1971 31.57
1972 31.07
1973 30.45
1974 29.61
1975 28.98
1976 28.15
1977 27.82
1978 27.55
1979 27.41
1980 27.42
1981 27.89
1982 28.09
1983 27.49
1984 27.22
1985 27.25
1986 27.33
1987 27.28
1988 26.79
1989 26.27
1990 25.88
1991 25.21
1992 24.58
1993 24.18
1994 23.80
1995 23.37
1996 23.08
1997 22.75
1998 22.34
1999 21.91
2000 21.65
2001 21.31
2002 21.05
2003 20.84
2004 20.69
2005 20.55
2006 20.40
2007 20.31
2008 20.20
2009 19.97
2010 19.78
2011 19.85
2012 19.95
2013 19.45
2014 19.46
2015 18.95
2016 19.07
2017 18.67
2018 18.15
2019 17.88
2020 17.33

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