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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Lesotho was 26.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44.36 in 1972 and a minimum value of 26.00 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 43.11
1961 43.13
1962 43.17
1963 43.24
1964 43.34
1965 43.46
1966 43.61
1967 43.78
1968 43.95
1969 44.10
1970 44.23
1971 44.32
1972 44.36
1973 44.34
1974 44.26
1975 44.11
1976 43.88
1977 43.60
1978 43.25
1979 42.86
1980 42.40
1981 41.88
1982 41.30
1983 40.66
1984 39.97
1985 39.23
1986 38.43
1987 37.60
1988 36.73
1989 35.86
1990 35.01
1991 34.20
1992 33.44
1993 32.76
1994 32.16
1995 31.68
1996 31.33
1997 31.11
1998 30.99
1999 30.95
2000 30.95
2001 30.96
2002 30.94
2003 30.85
2004 30.70
2005 30.47
2006 30.19
2007 29.89
2008 29.59
2009 29.31
2010 29.04
2011 28.80
2012 28.56
2013 28.32
2014 28.07
2015 27.80
2016 27.50
2017 27.17
2018 26.81
2019 26.42
2020 26.00

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