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Crude Birth Rate, 2015

2015, 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, 2015 covers 222 countries. Somalia is highest, at 47.171; Vatican City is lowest, at 4.458. The middle country reads 17.807. Against 2014, 221 values changed (39 up, 182 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 2015

HighestSomalia

47.171

LowestVatican City

4.458

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa47.171
NigerNERWestern Africa46.577
ChadTCDMiddle Africa46.510
MaliMLIWestern Africa44.474
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa43.338
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa43.236
BurundiBDIEastern Africa42.257
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa41.847
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa40.426
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa40.043
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia39.364
UgandaUGAEastern Africa39.007
BeninBENWestern Africa38.996
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa38.951
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa38.768
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa37.778
GuineaGINWestern Africa37.767
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa37.719
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa37.622
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa37.344
TogoTGOWestern Africa36.098
YemenYEMWestern Asia35.938
GambiaGMBWestern Africa35.746
SudanSDNNorthern Africa35.683
South SudanSSDEastern Africa35.407

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Somalia47.171
  2. Niger46.577
  3. Chad46.510
  4. Mali44.474
  5. Central African Republic43.338

Lowest

  1. Vatican City4.458
  2. San Marino7.366
  3. Japan7.816
  4. Italy7.917
  5. Portugal8.176

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 17.807. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 39 · 182rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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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, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2015.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 23.653. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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UN DESA Population Division (2015). Crude Birth Rate, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/2015

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