São Tomé and Principe - Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in São Tomé and Principe was 30.81 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.67 in 1960 and a minimum value of 30.81 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 47.67
1961 47.44
1962 47.06
1963 46.52
1964 45.84
1965 45.05
1966 44.21
1967 43.39
1968 42.64
1969 42.00
1970 41.51
1971 41.19
1972 41.01
1973 40.93
1974 40.95
1975 41.02
1976 41.13
1977 41.23
1978 41.30
1979 41.32
1980 41.30
1981 41.23
1982 41.13
1983 41.02
1984 40.91
1985 40.79
1986 40.66
1987 40.52
1988 40.37
1989 40.21
1990 40.05
1991 39.90
1992 39.75
1993 39.62
1994 39.51
1995 39.43
1996 39.40
1997 39.42
1998 39.47
1999 39.53
2000 39.59
2001 39.60
2002 39.55
2003 39.40
2004 39.16
2005 38.81
2006 38.36
2007 37.83
2008 37.25
2009 36.64
2010 36.00
2011 35.36
2012 34.73
2013 34.10
2014 33.51
2015 32.95
2016 32.44
2017 31.97
2018 31.54
2019 31.15
2020 30.81

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