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Crude Birth Rate, 2017

2017, 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, 2017 covers 222 countries. Somalia is highest, at 46.155; Vatican City is lowest, at 4.372. The middle country reads 16.762. Against 2016, 222 values changed (19 up, 203 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 2017

HighestSomalia

46.155

LowestVatican City

4.372

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa46.155
NigerNERWestern Africa45.057
ChadTCDMiddle Africa44.917
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa43.742
MaliMLIWestern Africa43.444
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa42.976
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa40.595
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa39.755
BurundiBDIEastern Africa38.618
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia38.171
UgandaUGAEastern Africa37.944
BeninBENWestern Africa37.840
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa37.727
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa37.611
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa37.516
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa37.046
GuineaGINWestern Africa36.891
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa36.693
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa36.580
YemenYEMWestern Asia36.067
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa35.938
TogoTGOWestern Africa35.738
SudanSDNNorthern Africa35.023
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa33.808
MalawiMWIEastern Africa33.682

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Somalia46.155
  2. Niger45.057
  3. Chad44.917
  4. Central African Republic43.742
  5. Mali43.444

Lowest

  1. Vatican City4.372
  2. San Marino6.142
  3. South Korea6.915
  4. British Virgin Islands6.925
  5. Japan7.378

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 16.762. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 19 · 203rose · 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 2017.

  • 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 (2017). Crude Birth Rate, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/2017

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