Field Listing :: Birth rate

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	38.84 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Albania	12.73 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Algeria	23.99 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

American Samoa	22.87 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Andorra	8.48 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Angola	38.97 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Anguilla	12.68 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Antigua and Barbuda	15.94 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Argentina	16.88 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Armenia	13.92 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Aruba	12.65 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Australia	12.19 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Austria	8.76 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Azerbaijan	16.96 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Bahamas, The	15.65 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Bahrain	13.92 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Bangladesh	21.61 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Barbados	11.97 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Belarus	10.86 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Belgium	9.99 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Belize	25.14 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Benin	36.51 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Bermuda	11.35 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Bhutan	18.12 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Bolivia	23.28 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.89 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Botswana	21.34 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Brazil	14.72 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

British Virgin Islands	10.83 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Brunei	17.49 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Bulgaria	8.92 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Burkina Faso	42.42 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Burma	18.65 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Burundi	42.33 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Cabo Verde	20.72 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Cambodia	24.4 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Cameroon	36.58 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Canada	10.29 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Cayman Islands	12.13 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Central African Republic	35.45 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Chad	37.29 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Chile	13.97 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

China	12.17 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Colombia	16.73 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Comoros	29.05 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the	35.62 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Congo, Republic of the	36.59 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Cook Islands	14.7 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Costa Rica	16.08 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire	29.25 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Croatia	9.49 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Cuba	9.9 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Curacao	NA

Cyprus	11.44 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Czech Republic	9.79 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Denmark	10.22 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Djibouti	24.08 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Dominica	15.53 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Dominican Republic	18.97 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Ecuador	18.87 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Egypt	23.35 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

El Salvador	16.79 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Equatorial Guinea	33.83 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Eritrea	30.69 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Estonia	10.29 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Ethiopia	37.66 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

European Union	10.17 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	NA

Faroe Islands	13.57 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Fiji	19.86 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Finland	10.35 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

France	12.49 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

French Polynesia	15.47 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Gabon	34.64 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Gambia, The	31.75 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Gaza Strip	32.2 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Georgia	12.93 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Germany	8.42 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Ghana	31.4 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Gibraltar	14.15 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Greece	8.8 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Greenland	14.53 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Grenada	16.3 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Guam	17.01 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Guatemala	25.46 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Guernsey	9.89 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Guinea	36.02 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Guinea-Bissau	33.83 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Guyana	15.9 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Haiti	22.83 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Honduras	23.66 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Hong Kong	9.38 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Hungary	9.26 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Iceland	13.09 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

India	19.89 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Indonesia	17.04 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Iran	18.23 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Iraq	26.85 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Ireland	15.18 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Isle of Man	11.17 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Israel	18.44 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Italy	8.84 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Jamaica	18.41 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Japan	8.07 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Jersey	11.65 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Jordan	25.23 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Kazakhstan	19.61 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Kenya	28.27 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Kiribati	21.85 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Korea, North	14.51 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Korea, South	8.26 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Kuwait	20.26 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Kyrgyzstan	23.33 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Laos	24.76 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Latvia	9.79 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Lebanon	14.8 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Lesotho	25.92 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Liberia	35.07 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Libya	18.4 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Liechtenstein	10.53 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Lithuania	9.36 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Luxembourg	11.75 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Macau	8.98 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Macedonia	11.64 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Madagascar	33.12 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Malawi	41.8 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Malaysia	20.06 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Maldives	15.59 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Mali	45.53 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Malta	10.24 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Marshall Islands	26.36 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Mauritania	31.83 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Mauritius	13.46 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Mexico	19.02 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of	20.97 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Moldova	12.21 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Monaco	6.72 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Mongolia	20.88 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Montenegro	10.59 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Montserrat	11.31 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Morocco	18.47 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Mozambique	38.83 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Namibia	20.28 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Nauru	25.61 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Nepal	21.07 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Netherlands	10.83 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

New Caledonia	15.57 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

New Zealand	13.4 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Nicaragua	18.41 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Niger	46.12 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Nigeria	38.03 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Northern Mariana Islands	18.94 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Norway	12.09 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Oman	24.47 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Pakistan	23.19 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Palau	10.95 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Panama	18.61 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Papua New Guinea	24.89 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Paraguay	16.66 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Peru	18.57 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Philippines	24.24 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Poland	9.77 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Portugal	9.42 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Puerto Rico	10.9 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Qatar	9.95 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Romania	9.27 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Russia	11.87 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Rwanda	34.61 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	10.03 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis	13.64 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Saint Lucia	13.94 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon	7.7 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	13.85 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Samoa	21.29 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

San Marino	8.7 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe	35.12 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Saudi Arabia	18.78 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Senegal	35.09 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Serbia	9.13 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Seychelles	14.54 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Sierra Leone	37.4 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Singapore	8.1 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Sint Maarten	13 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)

Slovakia	10.01 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Slovenia	8.54 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Solomon Islands	26.33 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Somalia	40.87 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

South Africa	18.94 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

South Sudan	37.68 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Spain	9.88 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Sri Lanka	16.24 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Sudan	30.01 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Suriname	16.73 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Swaziland	25.18 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Sweden	11.92 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Switzerland	10.48 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Syria	22.76 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Taiwan	8.55 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Tajikistan	24.99 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Tanzania	36.82 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Thailand	11.26 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Timor-Leste	34.48 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Togo	34.52 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Tonga	23.55 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago	13.8 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Tunisia	16.9 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Turkey	16.86 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Turkmenistan	19.46 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands	16.61 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Tuvalu	23.74 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Uganda	44.17 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Ukraine	9.41 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

United Arab Emirates	15.54 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

United Kingdom	12.22 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

United States	13.42 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Uruguay	13.18 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Uzbekistan	17.02 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Vanuatu	25.69 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Venezuela	19.42 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Vietnam	16.26 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Virgin Islands	10.49 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Wallis and Futuna	13.56 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

West Bank	23.41 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Western Sahara	30.71 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

World	18.7 births/1,000 population note: this rate results in about 255 worldwide births per minute or 4.3 births every second (2014 est.)

Yemen	31.02 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Zambia	42.46 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)

Zimbabwe	32.47 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)