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Crude Birth Rate, 1961

1961, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Birth Rate, 1961 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 57.410; Vatican City is lowest, at 9.288. The middle country reads 42.521. Against 1960, 222 values changed (71 up, 151 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 1961

HighestNiger

57.410

LowestVatican City

9.288

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, 1961, 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, 1961: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa57.410
YemenYEMWestern Asia56.195
KenyaKENEastern Africa55.385
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa54.601
MalawiMWIEastern Africa53.968
OmanOMNWestern Asia52.724
South SudanSSDEastern Africa52.287
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa52.046
RwandaRWAEastern Africa51.954
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia51.708
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia51.374
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean51.158
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa51.154
MaliMLIWestern Africa50.791
JordanJORWestern Asia50.720
PalestinePSEWestern Asia50.602
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa50.588
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia50.566
SamoaWSMPolynesia50.478
SenegalSENWestern Africa50.318
GambiaGMBWestern Africa50.261
GhanaGHAWestern Africa49.988
IranIRNSouthern Asia49.823
ComorosCOMEastern Africa49.370
NicaraguaNICCentral America49.339

02In 1961

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger57.410
  2. Yemen56.195
  3. Kenya55.385
  4. Côte d’Ivoire54.601
  5. Malawi53.968

Lowest

  1. Vatican City9.288
  2. Czechia13.487
  3. Isle of Man13.678
  4. Sweden13.706
  5. Hungary13.985

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 42.521. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031960 → 1961

Since 1960

What changed between 1960 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 71 · 151rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Vietnam41.589 → 35.639−5.950
  • Barbados34.987 → 30.982−4.005
  • China29.491 → 25.740−3.751
  • Macau33.335 → 29.620−3.715
  • Malta26.734 → 24.166−2.568

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 1961.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

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 (1961). Crude Birth Rate, 1961 [data set], describing 1961. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/1961

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07Questions

Crude Birth Rate, 1961: questions and answers

Which country has the highest birth rate in Crude Birth Rate, 1961?

Niger, at 57.410, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Birth Rate, 1961 describe?

1961.

How many countries does Crude Birth Rate, 1961 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Birth Rate, 1961?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Crude Birth Rate, 1961 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Crude Birth Rate, 2023.

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