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Crude Birth Rate, 1968

1968, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Birth Rate, 1968 covers 222 countries. Yemen is highest, at 56.492; Vatican City is lowest, at 9.694. The middle country reads 38.448. Against 1967, 222 values changed (45 up, 177 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 1968

HighestYemen

56.492

LowestVatican City

9.694

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, 1968, 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, 1968: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
YemenYEMWestern Asia56.492
NigerNERWestern Africa55.785
MalawiMWIEastern Africa54.364
South SudanSSDEastern Africa53.977
KenyaKENEastern Africa53.519
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa53.302
OmanOMNWestern Asia52.178
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa52.034
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia51.209
PalestinePSEWestern Asia50.988
MaliMLIWestern Africa50.613
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa50.171
SenegalSENWestern Africa49.971
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa49.544
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia49.344
JordanJORWestern Asia49.197
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa48.914
SudanSDNNorthern Africa48.826
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa48.767
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia48.720
TogoTGOWestern Africa48.432
UgandaUGAEastern Africa48.422
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia48.169
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa48.051
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa47.881

02In 1968

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Yemen56.492
  2. Niger55.785
  3. Malawi54.364
  4. South Sudan53.977
  5. Kenya53.519

Lowest

  1. Vatican City9.694
  2. Macau12.217
  3. Isle of Man12.768
  4. Luxembourg13.902
  5. Latvia13.922

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 38.448. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

What changed between 1967 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 45 · 177rose · 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 1968.

  • 219 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 47.337. 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 (1968). Crude Birth Rate, 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/1968

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07Questions

Crude Birth Rate, 1968: questions and answers

Which country has the highest birth rate in Crude Birth Rate, 1968?

Yemen, at 56.492, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Birth Rate, 1968 describe?

1968.

How many countries does Crude Birth Rate, 1968 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Birth Rate, 1968?

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, 1968 the newest?

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

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