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Crude Birth Rate, 1950

1950, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The crude birth rate is the number of babies born alive in a year for every 1,000 people living in a country. It is the simplest measure of how many births a population produces, and it is "crude" because it takes no account of how many of those people are of an age to have children.

Crude Birth Rate, 1950 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 58.627; Vatican City is lowest, at 7.471. The middle country reads 43.212.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 1950

HighestNiger

58.627

LowestVatican City

7.471

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Crude Birth Rate, 1950, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Crude Birth Rate, 1950: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa58.627
RwandaRWAEastern Africa58.339
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa54.618
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa54.277
NicaraguaNICCentral America54.111
SamoaWSMPolynesia53.443
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean53.082
BelizeBLZCentral America52.856
YemenYEMWestern Asia52.763
HondurasHNDCentral America52.498
UgandaUGAEastern Africa52.400
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean52.251
BurundiBDIEastern Africa51.980
MaliMLIWestern Africa51.957
OmanOMNWestern Asia51.956
SenegalSENWestern Africa51.341
AnguillaAIACaribbean50.929
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia50.891
IranIRNSouthern Asia50.763
GuatemalaGTMCentral America50.713
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa50.602
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa50.519
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa50.311
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa50.287
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean50.261

02In 1950

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger58.627
  2. Rwanda58.339
  3. Egypt54.618
  4. Côte d’Ivoire54.277
  5. Nicaragua54.111

Lowest

  1. Vatican City7.471
  2. Luxembourg14.772
  3. Andorra15.345
  4. Austria15.500
  5. Isle of Man16.097

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 43.212. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1950.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 45.605. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

04The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1950). Crude Birth Rate, 1950 [data set], describing 1950. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/1950

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