Jamaica - Birth rate

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Jamaica was 15.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 40.81 in 1962 and a minimum value of 15.70 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 40.59
1961 40.79
1962 40.81
1963 40.66
1964 40.34
1965 39.84
1966 39.16
1967 38.32
1968 37.35
1969 36.28
1970 35.17
1971 34.06
1972 32.98
1973 31.96
1974 31.06
1975 30.30
1976 29.72
1977 29.31
1978 29.02
1979 28.85
1980 28.74
1981 28.64
1982 28.50
1983 28.28
1984 27.98
1985 27.59
1986 27.13
1987 26.65
1988 26.18
1989 25.74
1990 25.33
1991 24.97
1992 24.63
1993 24.32
1994 24.00
1995 23.67
1996 23.30
1997 22.89
1998 22.42
1999 21.91
2000 21.37
2001 20.84
2002 20.33
2003 19.88
2004 19.49
2005 19.14
2006 18.85
2007 18.57
2008 18.29
2009 18.02
2010 17.74
2011 17.48
2012 17.23
2013 17.01
2014 16.81
2015 16.63
2016 16.46
2017 16.29
2018 16.10
2019 15.91
2020 15.70

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population