OECD members - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in OECD members was 10.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.47 in 1960 and a minimum value of 10.75 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 23.47
1961 23.33
1962 23.02
1963 22.88
1964 22.77
1965 22.11
1966 21.10
1967 21.32
1968 20.96
1969 20.78
1970 20.67
1971 20.38
1972 19.58
1973 19.13
1974 18.87
1975 18.36
1976 18.04
1977 17.85
1978 17.53
1979 17.60
1980 17.49
1981 17.20
1982 17.07
1983 16.75
1984 16.49
1985 16.34
1986 16.07
1987 15.96
1988 15.95
1989 15.83
1990 15.85
1991 15.59
1992 15.33
1993 14.99
1994 14.73
1995 14.38
1996 14.24
1997 14.06
1998 13.93
1999 13.75
2000 13.78
2001 13.46
2002 13.29
2003 13.25
2004 13.12
2005 12.99
2006 13.10
2007 13.13
2008 13.09
2009 12.81
2010 12.67
2011 12.44
2012 12.34
2013 12.08
2014 12.06
2015 11.94
2016 11.83
2017 11.55
2018 11.33
2019 11.09
2020 10.75

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