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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in China was 8.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 43.37 in 1963 and a minimum value of 8.52 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 20.86
1961 18.02
1962 37.01
1963 43.37
1964 39.14
1965 37.88
1966 35.05
1967 33.96
1968 35.59
1969 34.11
1970 33.43
1971 30.65
1972 29.77
1973 27.93
1974 24.82
1975 23.01
1976 19.91
1977 18.93
1978 18.25
1979 17.82
1980 18.21
1981 20.91
1982 22.28
1983 20.19
1984 19.90
1985 21.04
1986 22.43
1987 23.33
1988 22.37
1989 21.58
1990 21.06
1991 19.68
1992 18.27
1993 18.09
1994 17.70
1995 17.12
1996 16.98
1997 16.57
1998 15.64
1999 14.64
2000 14.03
2001 13.38
2002 12.86
2003 12.41
2004 12.29
2005 12.40
2006 12.09
2007 12.10
2008 12.14
2009 11.95
2010 11.90
2011 13.27
2012 14.57
2013 13.03
2014 13.83
2015 11.99
2016 13.57
2017 12.64
2018 10.86
2019 10.41
2020 8.52

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