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Field Listing :: Birth rate

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This entry gives the average annual number of births during a year per 1,000 persons in the population at midyear; also known as crude birth rate. The birth rate is usually the dominant factor in determining the rate of population growth. It depends on both the level of fertility and the age structure of the population.
Country Comparison to the World

Country	Birth rate(births/1,000 population)


Afghanistan	37.83 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Albania	12.15 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Algeria	16.69 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


American Samoa	22.84 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Andorra	9.66 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Angola	42.91 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Anguilla	12.92 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Antigua and Barbuda	16.31 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Argentina	17.54 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Armenia	12.85 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Aruba	12.78 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Australia	12.33 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Austria	8.67 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Azerbaijan	17.85 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Bahamas, The	16.1 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Bahrain	14.64 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Bangladesh	22.98 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Barbados	12.35 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Belarus	9.76 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Belgium	10.06 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Belize	26.43 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Benin	38.11 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Bermuda	11.42 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Bhutan	19.13 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Bolivia	24.71 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.89 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Botswana	22.31 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Brazil	17.79 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


British Virgin Islands	14.5 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Brunei	17.87 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Bulgaria	9.32 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Burkina Faso	43.59 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Burma	19.31 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Burundi	41.01 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Cambodia	25.4 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Cameroon	33.04 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Canada	10.28 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Cape Verde	21.47 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Cayman Islands	12.24 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Central African Republic	36.46 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Chad	39.4 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Chile	14.33 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


China	12.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Christmas Island	NA


Cocos (Keeling) Islands	NA


Colombia	17.49 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Comoros	34.19 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	37.74 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Congo, Republic of the	40.55 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Cook Islands	15.37 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Costa Rica	16.54 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Cote d'Ivoire	30.95 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Croatia	9.6 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Cuba	9.99 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Curacao	NA


Cyprus	11.41 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Czech Republic	8.7 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Denmark	10.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Djibouti	25.27 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Dominica	15.62 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Dominican Republic	19.67 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Ecuador	19.96 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Egypt	24.63 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


El Salvador	17.75 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Equatorial Guinea	35.43 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Eritrea	32.8 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Estonia	10.45 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Ethiopia	42.99 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


European Union	9.83 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	NA


Faroe Islands	12.95 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Fiji	21.11 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Finland	10.37 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


France	12.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


French Polynesia	15.53 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Gabon	35.19 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Gambia, The	34.19 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Gaza Strip	35.3 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Georgia	10.73 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Germany	8.3 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Ghana	27.55 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Gibraltar	14.23 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Greece	9.21 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Greenland	14.6 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Grenada	17.01 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Guam	17.85 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Guatemala	26.96 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Guernsey	10.13 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Guinea	36.9 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Guinea-Bissau	35.15 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Guyana	17.12 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Haiti	24.4 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Honduras	25.14 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Hong Kong	7.49 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Hungary	9.6 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Iceland	13.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


India	20.97 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Indonesia	18.1 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Iran	18.55 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Iraq	28.81 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Ireland	16.1 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Isle of Man	11.42 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Israel	19.24 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Italy	9.18 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Jamaica	19.2 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Japan	7.31 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Jersey	10.9 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Jordan	26.79 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Kazakhstan	16.65 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Kenya	33.54 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Kiribati	22.73 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Korea, North	14.51 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Korea, South	8.55 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Kuwait	21.32 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Kyrgyzstan	23.66 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Laos	26.13 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Latvia	9.96 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Lebanon	15.02 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Lesotho	26.93 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Liberia	37.25 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Libya	24.04 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Liechtenstein	9.65 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Lithuania	9.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Luxembourg	11.69 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Macau	9.03 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Macedonia	11.87 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Madagascar	37.51 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Malawi	40.85 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Malaysia	21.08 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Maldives	14.83 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Mali	45.62 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Malta	10.35 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Marshall Islands	29.11 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Mauritania	33.23 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Mauritius	13.97 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Mexico	19.13 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Micronesia, Federated States of	22.22 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Moldova	11.16 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Monaco	6.94 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Mongolia	20.93 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Montenegro	11 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Montserrat	11.67 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Morocco	19.19 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Mozambique	39.62 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Namibia	21.48 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Nauru	27.78 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Nepal	22.17 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Netherlands	10.23 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


New Caledonia	16.28 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


New Zealand	13.68 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Nicaragua	19.46 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Niger	50.54 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Nigeria	35.51 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Niue	NA


Norfolk Island	NA


Northern Mariana Islands	20.69 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Norway	10.84 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Oman	24.15 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Pakistan	24.81 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Palau	10.74 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Panama	19.43 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Papua New Guinea	26.44 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Paraguay	17.48 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Peru	19.41 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Philippines	25.34 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Pitcairn Islands	NA


Poland	10.01 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Portugal	9.94 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Puerto Rico	11.35 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Qatar	15.48 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Romania	9.55 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Russia	11.05 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Rwanda	36.74 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	10.65 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	14.07 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Saint Lucia	14.63 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	8.32 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	14.62 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Samoa	22.5 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


San Marino	9.02 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Sao Tome and Principe	38.03 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Saudi Arabia	19.34 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Senegal	36.73 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Serbia	9.19 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Seychelles	15.33 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Sierra Leone	38.46 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Singapore	8.5 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Sint Maarten	NA


Slovakia	10.48 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Slovenia	8.85 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Solomon Islands	28.03 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Somalia	42.71 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


South Africa	19.48 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Spain	10.66 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Sri Lanka	17.42 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Sudan	36.12 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Suriname	16.42 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Svalbard	NA


Swaziland	26.63 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Sweden	10.18 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Switzerland	9.53 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Syria	23.99 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Taiwan	8.9 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Tajikistan	26.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Tanzania	32.64 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Thailand	12.95 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Timor-Leste	25.7 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Togo	35.58 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Tokelau	NA


Tonga	25.27 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Trinidad and Tobago	14.35 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Tunisia	17.4 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Turkey	17.93 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Turkmenistan	19.54 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Turks and Caicos Islands	17.76 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Tuvalu	23.24 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Uganda	47.49 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Ukraine	9.62 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


United Arab Emirates	15.87 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


United Kingdom	12.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


United States	13.83 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Uruguay	13.52 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Uzbekistan	17.43 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Vanuatu	20.86 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Venezuela	20.1 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Vietnam	17.07 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Virgin Islands	11.41 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Wallis and Futuna	13.96 births/1,000 population NA (2011 est.)


West Bank	24.56 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Western Sahara	32.1 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


World	19.15 births/1,000 population note: this rate results in about 252 worldwide births per minute or 4.2 births every second (2011 est.)


Yemen	33.49 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Zambia	44.08 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)


Zimbabwe	31.86 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

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