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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	38.11 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Albania	15.39 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Algeria	16.71 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


American Samoa	23.05 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Andorra	10.03 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Angola	43.33 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Anguilla	12.94 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Antigua and Barbuda	16.43 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Argentina	17.75 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Armenia	12.74 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Aruba	12.77 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Australia	12.39 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Austria	8.65 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Azerbaijan	17.75 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Bahamas, The	16.25 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Bahrain	16.81 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Bangladesh	23.8 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Barbados	12.43 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Belarus	9.76 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Belgium	10.1 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Belize	26.84 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Benin	38.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Bermuda	11.47 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Bhutan	19.62 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Bolivia	25.16 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.87 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Botswana	22.54 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Brazil	18.11 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


British Virgin Islands	14.52 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Brunei	18 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Bulgaria	9.43 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Burkina Faso	43.98 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Burma	19.49 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Burundi	41.43 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Cambodia	25.77 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Cameroon	33.58 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Canada	10.28 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Cape Verde	21.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Cayman Islands	12.29 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Central African Republic	36.79 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Chad	40.12 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Chile	14.46 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


China	12.17 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Christmas Island	NA


Cocos (Keeling) Islands	NA


Colombia	17.76 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Comoros	34.71 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	42.26 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Congo, Republic of the	41.01 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Cook Islands	15.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Costa Rica	16.65 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Cote d'Ivoire	31.48 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Croatia	9.63 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Cuba	11.02 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Cyprus	11.38 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Czech Republic	8.76 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Denmark	10.4 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Djibouti	25.58 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Dominica	15.68 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Dominican Republic	22.13 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Ecuador	20.32 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Egypt	25.02 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


El Salvador	18.06 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Equatorial Guinea	36 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Eritrea	33.48 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Estonia	10.42 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Ethiopia	43.34 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


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


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	NA


Faroe Islands	12.9 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Fiji	21.65 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Finland	10.37 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


France	12.43 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


French Polynesia	15.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Gabon	35.39 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Gambia, The	37.31 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Gaza Strip	36.26 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Georgia	10.7 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Germany	8.21 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Ghana	28.09 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Gibraltar	14.2 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Greece	9.34 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Greenland	14.68 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Grenada	17.2 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Guam	18.1 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Guatemala	27.4 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Guernsey	8.55 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Guinea	37.21 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Guinea-Bissau	35.56 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Guyana	17.61 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Haiti	28.7 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Honduras	25.61 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Hong Kong	7.45 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Hungary	9.43 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Iceland	13.36 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


India	21.34 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Indonesia	18.45 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Iran	17.33 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Iraq	29.41 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Ireland	14.1 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Isle of Man	10.7 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Israel	19.51 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Italy	8.01 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Jamaica	19.47 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Japan	7.41 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Jersey	8.56 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Jordan	27.06 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Kazakhstan	16.66 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Kenya	35.14 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Kiribati	23.06 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Korea, North	14.58 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Korea, South	8.72 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Kuwait	21.64 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Kyrgyzstan	23.58 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Laos	33.44 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Latvia	9.9 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Lebanon	15.1 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Lesotho	27.17 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Liberia	38.14 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Libya	24.58 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Liechtenstein	9.69 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Lithuania	9.21 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Luxembourg	11.7 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Macau	8.98 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Macedonia	11.92 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Madagascar	37.89 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Malawi	41.28 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Malaysia	22.06 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Maldives	14.5 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Mali	46.09 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Malta	10.38 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Marshall Islands	29.94 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Mauritania	33.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Mauritius	14.17 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Mayotte	38.76 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Mexico	19.39 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Micronesia, Federated States of	22.57 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Moldova	11.16 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Monaco	7.03 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Mongolia	21.03 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Montenegro	11.09 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Montserrat	12.11 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Morocco	19.4 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Mozambique	37.8 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Namibia	21.82 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Nauru	23.56 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Nepal	22.43 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Netherlands	10.3 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Netherlands Antilles	14.05 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


New Caledonia	16.71 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


New Zealand	13.81 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Nicaragua	22.77 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Niger	51.08 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Nigeria	36.07 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Niue	NA


Norfolk Island	NA


Northern Mariana Islands	21.05 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Norway	10.9 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Oman	23.9 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Pakistan	25.09 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Palau	10.68 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Panama	19.71 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Papua New Guinea	26.95 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Paraguay	17.73 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Peru	19 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Philippines	25.68 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Pitcairn Islands	NA


Poland	10.04 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Portugal	10.12 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Puerto Rico	11.65 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Qatar	15.54 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Romania	10.43 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Russia	11.11 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Rwanda	37.26 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	10.95 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	14.23 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Saint Lucia	14.81 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	9.15 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	14.89 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Samoa	22.92 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


San Marino	9.18 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Sao Tome and Principe	39.09 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Saudi Arabia	28.21 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Senegal	36.36 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Serbia	9.2 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Seychelles	15.53 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Sierra Leone	38.79 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Singapore	8.65 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Slovakia	10.55 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Slovenia	8.92 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Solomon Islands	26.87 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Somalia	43.33 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


South Africa	19.61 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Spain	9.54 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Sri Lanka	15.88 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Sudan	33.25 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Suriname	16.61 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Svalbard	NA


Swaziland	27.12 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Sweden	10.14 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Switzerland	9.56 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Syria	24.44 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Taiwan	8.97 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Tajikistan	26.49 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Tanzania	33.44 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Thailand	13.21 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Timor-Leste	25.93 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Togo	36.23 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Tokelau	NA


Tonga	17.78 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Trinidad and Tobago	14.37 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Tunisia	15.31 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Turkey	18.28 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Turkmenistan	19.62 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Turks and Caicos Islands	20.44 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Tuvalu	23.01 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Uganda	47.55 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Ukraine	9.62 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


United Arab Emirates	15.98 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


United Kingdom	10.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


United States	13.83 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Uruguay	13.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Uzbekistan	17.51 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Vanuatu	21.08 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Venezuela	20.29 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Vietnam	17.29 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Virgin Islands	11.61 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Wallis and Futuna	NA


West Bank	24.91 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Western Sahara	32.56 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


World	19.86 births/1,000 population (2009 est.)


Yemen	34.37 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Zambia	39.93 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)


Zimbabwe	31.57 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

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