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Crude Birth Rate, 1979

1979, 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, 1979 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 56.258; Vatican City is lowest, at 8.127. The middle country reads 31.599. Against 1978, 222 values changed (82 up, 140 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 1979

HighestNiger

56.258

LowestVatican City

8.127

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, 1979, 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, 1979: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa56.258
YemenYEMWestern Asia54.898
RwandaRWAEastern Africa52.521
MalawiMWIEastern Africa52.435
South SudanSSDEastern Africa52.271
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia52.029
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa51.856
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia51.632
OmanOMNWestern Asia51.416
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa51.291
MaliMLIWestern Africa50.662
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa50.093
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa49.582
BurundiBDIEastern Africa49.511
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa49.497
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa49.014
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa48.945
UgandaUGAEastern Africa48.827
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa48.816
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa48.797
SenegalSENWestern Africa48.580
KenyaKENEastern Africa48.561
ChadTCDMiddle Africa48.287
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa48.175
GambiaGMBWestern Africa47.832

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger56.258
  2. Yemen54.898
  3. Rwanda52.521
  4. Malawi52.435
  5. South Sudan52.271

Lowest

  1. Vatican City8.127
  2. Germany10.388
  3. Macau10.400
  4. Luxembourg11.255
  5. Switzerland11.395

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 31.599. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 82 · 140rose · 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 1979.

  • 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 (1979). Crude Birth Rate, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/1979

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