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Crude Birth Rate, 1958

1958, 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, 1958 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 57.801; Vatican City is lowest, at 8.659. The middle country reads 43.701. Against 1957, 222 values changed (87 up, 135 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 1958

HighestNiger

57.801

LowestVatican City

8.659

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, 1958, 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, 1958: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa57.801
YemenYEMWestern Asia55.543
KenyaKENEastern Africa55.408
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa54.429
RwandaRWAEastern Africa54.420
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean53.378
MalawiMWIEastern Africa52.909
OmanOMNWestern Asia52.367
IranIRNSouthern Asia52.257
SamoaWSMPolynesia51.779
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia51.697
South SudanSSDEastern Africa51.507
GhanaGHAWestern Africa51.358
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa51.229
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa50.985
NicaraguaNICCentral America50.893
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa50.891
MaliMLIWestern Africa50.789
GambiaGMBWestern Africa50.691
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia50.424
SenegalSENWestern Africa50.384
HondurasHNDCentral America50.373
PalestinePSEWestern Asia50.304
BahrainBHRWestern Asia49.901
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean49.814

02In 1958

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger57.801
  2. Yemen55.543
  3. Kenya55.408
  4. Côte d’Ivoire54.429
  5. Rwanda54.420

Lowest

  1. Vatican City8.659
  2. Isle of Man13.279
  3. Sweden14.149
  4. Czechia14.793
  5. Luxembourg15.770

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 43.701. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031957 → 1958

Since 1957

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 87 · 135rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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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, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1958.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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UN DESA Population Division (1958). Crude Birth Rate, 1958 [data set], describing 1958. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/1958

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