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Crude Birth Rate, 1966

1966, 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, 1966 covers 222 countries. Yemen is highest, at 56.852; Vatican City is lowest, at 10.518. The middle country reads 39.676. Against 1965, 222 values changed (47 up, 175 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 1966

HighestYemen

56.852

LowestVatican City

10.518

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, 1966, 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, 1966: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
YemenYEMWestern Asia56.852
NigerNERWestern Africa56.222
KenyaKENEastern Africa54.628
MalawiMWIEastern Africa54.256
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa53.768
South SudanSSDEastern Africa53.478
OmanOMNWestern Asia52.616
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa52.354
PalestinePSEWestern Asia51.051
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia51.018
MaliMLIWestern Africa50.604
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa50.199
SenegalSENWestern Africa50.142
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia50.108
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia49.983
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa49.687
JordanJORWestern Asia49.530
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa49.508
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa49.065
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa48.789
SudanSDNNorthern Africa48.733
TogoTGOWestern Africa48.644
GambiaGMBWestern Africa48.486
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia48.444
ComorosCOMEastern Africa48.310

02In 1966

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Yemen56.852
  2. Niger56.222
  3. Kenya54.628
  4. Malawi54.256
  5. Côte d’Ivoire53.768

Lowest

  1. Vatican City10.518
  2. Isle of Man12.464
  3. Hungary13.554
  4. Latvia13.890
  5. Estonia14.074

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 39.676. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031965 → 1966

Since 1965

What changed between 1965 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 47 · 175rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1966.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 39.203. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 (1966). Crude Birth Rate, 1966 [data set], describing 1966. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/1966

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