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Crude Birth Rate, 1960

1960, 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, 1960 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 57.613; Vatican City is lowest, at 9.049. The middle country reads 42.894. Against 1959, 222 values changed (81 up, 141 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 1960

HighestNiger

57.613

LowestVatican City

9.049

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, 1960, 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, 1960: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa57.613
YemenYEMWestern Asia56.016
KenyaKENEastern Africa55.184
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa54.648
MalawiMWIEastern Africa53.727
RwandaRWAEastern Africa52.880
OmanOMNWestern Asia52.757
South SudanSSDEastern Africa52.027
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean52.019
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa51.615
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia51.538
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa51.268
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia51.204
IranIRNSouthern Asia50.991
SamoaWSMPolynesia50.987
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa50.808
MaliMLIWestern Africa50.784
PalestinePSEWestern Asia50.559
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia50.516
GambiaGMBWestern Africa50.432
GhanaGHAWestern Africa50.374
SenegalSENWestern Africa50.359
JordanJORWestern Asia50.144
NicaraguaNICCentral America50.042
BahrainBHRWestern Asia49.599

02In 1960

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger57.613
  2. Yemen56.016
  3. Kenya55.184
  4. Côte d’Ivoire54.648
  5. Malawi53.727

Lowest

  1. Vatican City9.049
  2. Czechia13.292
  3. Sweden13.473
  4. Isle of Man14.157
  5. Hungary14.653

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 42.894. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031959 → 1960

Since 1959

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 81 · 141rose · 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 1960.

  • 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 (1960). Crude Birth Rate, 1960 [data set], describing 1960. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/1960

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