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Crude Birth Rate, 1986

1986, 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, 1986 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 56.097; Vatican City is lowest, at 7.140. The middle country reads 30.329. Against 1985, 222 values changed (54 up, 168 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 1986

HighestNiger

56.097

LowestVatican City

7.140

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, 1986, 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, 1986: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa56.097
YemenYEMWestern Asia53.111
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia52.195
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa51.498
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa50.750
South SudanSSDEastern Africa50.626
UgandaUGAEastern Africa50.361
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia50.171
MalawiMWIEastern Africa49.787
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa49.250
ChadTCDMiddle Africa49.122
RwandaRWAEastern Africa49.031
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa48.857
GambiaGMBWestern Africa48.849
MaliMLIWestern Africa48.782
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa48.603
BurundiBDIEastern Africa48.376
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa47.872
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa47.652
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa47.473
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa47.396
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia47.322
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa47.241
BeninBENWestern Africa47.092
KenyaKENEastern Africa46.647

02In 1986

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger56.097
  2. Yemen53.111
  3. Afghanistan52.195
  4. Ethiopia51.498
  5. Angola50.750

Lowest

  1. Vatican City7.140
  2. San Marino9.482
  3. Italy9.795
  4. Denmark10.758
  5. Germany10.890

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 30.329. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031985 → 1986

Since 1985

What changed between 1985 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 54 · 168rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Oman48.252 → 45.576−2.676
  • Singapore16.896 → 14.656−2.240
  • Algeria38.144 → 36.092−2.052
  • Niue29.255 → 27.409−1.846
  • Iran42.394 → 40.706−1.688

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 1986.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 32.403. 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 (1986). Crude Birth Rate, 1986 [data set], describing 1986. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/1986

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