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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Cameroon was 34.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 46.43 in 1983 and a minimum value of 34.42 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 42.55
1961 42.82
1962 43.10
1963 43.37
1964 43.63
1965 43.87
1966 44.08
1967 44.26
1968 44.43
1969 44.57
1970 44.70
1971 44.82
1972 44.92
1973 45.03
1974 45.13
1975 45.24
1976 45.38
1977 45.54
1978 45.73
1979 45.92
1980 46.11
1981 46.27
1982 46.38
1983 46.43
1984 46.41
1985 46.31
1986 46.13
1987 45.87
1988 45.57
1989 45.21
1990 44.82
1991 44.41
1992 43.97
1993 43.53
1994 43.09
1995 42.69
1996 42.34
1997 42.03
1998 41.78
1999 41.58
2000 41.42
2001 41.30
2002 41.20
2003 41.09
2004 40.98
2005 40.83
2006 40.64
2007 40.40
2008 40.12
2009 39.80
2010 39.42
2011 38.99
2012 38.52
2013 38.02
2014 37.50
2015 36.96
2016 36.43
2017 35.90
2018 35.39
2019 34.89
2020 34.42

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