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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in India was 17.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.00 in 1960 and a minimum value of 17.44 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 42.00
1961 41.75
1962 41.48
1963 41.20
1964 40.90
1965 40.59
1966 40.27
1967 39.97
1968 39.67
1969 39.39
1970 39.11
1971 38.82
1972 38.52
1973 38.20
1974 37.87
1975 37.53
1976 37.21
1977 36.91
1978 36.64
1979 36.40
1980 36.17
1981 35.92
1982 35.63
1983 35.29
1984 34.89
1985 34.42
1986 33.89
1987 33.32
1988 32.73
1989 32.12
1990 31.52
1991 30.92
1992 30.35
1993 29.79
1994 29.26
1995 28.75
1996 28.26
1997 27.79
1998 27.32
1999 26.86
2000 26.40
2001 25.94
2002 25.49
2003 25.03
2004 24.57
2005 24.09
2006 23.56
2007 23.00
2008 22.39
2009 21.76
2010 21.11
2011 20.50
2012 19.92
2013 19.42
2014 18.98
2015 18.63
2016 18.33
2017 18.08
2018 17.86
2019 17.64
2020 17.44

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