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

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Mauritania was 32.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.34 in 1960 and a minimum value of 32.84 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 49.34
1961 49.07
1962 48.76
1963 48.42
1964 48.08
1965 47.75
1966 47.43
1967 47.13
1968 46.84
1969 46.55
1970 46.28
1971 46.01
1972 45.75
1973 45.48
1974 45.20
1975 44.92
1976 44.62
1977 44.32
1978 44.01
1979 43.70
1980 43.39
1981 43.09
1982 42.79
1983 42.49
1984 42.20
1985 41.91
1986 41.60
1987 41.27
1988 40.93
1989 40.57
1990 40.21
1991 39.87
1992 39.56
1993 39.29
1994 39.06
1995 38.87
1996 38.71
1997 38.56
1998 38.43
1999 38.29
2000 38.14
2001 37.98
2002 37.82
2003 37.66
2004 37.49
2005 37.33
2006 37.16
2007 37.00
2008 36.85
2009 36.68
2010 36.50
2011 36.29
2012 36.03
2013 35.73
2014 35.38
2015 34.99
2016 34.57
2017 34.13
2018 33.69
2019 33.26
2020 32.84

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