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Crude Birth Rate, 2018

2018, 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, 2018 covers 222 countries. Somalia is highest, at 45.670; Vatican City is lowest, at 4.342. The middle country reads 15.813. Against 2017, 222 values changed (28 up, 194 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 2018

HighestSomalia

45.670

LowestVatican City

4.342

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa45.670
ChadTCDMiddle Africa44.401
NigerNERWestern Africa44.181
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa43.838
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa42.887
MaliMLIWestern Africa42.585
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa40.057
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa39.448
UgandaUGAEastern Africa37.673
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia37.624
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa37.335
BurundiBDIEastern Africa37.215
BeninBENWestern Africa36.955
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa36.899
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa36.621
GuineaGINWestern Africa36.329
YemenYEMWestern Asia36.046
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa36.006
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa35.690
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa35.464
TogoTGOWestern Africa35.431
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa35.081
SudanSDNNorthern Africa35.074
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa33.651
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa33.394

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Somalia45.670
  2. Chad44.401
  3. Niger44.181
  4. Central African Republic43.838
  5. DR Congo42.887

Lowest

  1. Vatican City4.342
  2. Puerto Rico6.143
  3. San Marino6.174
  4. South Korea6.246
  5. British Virgin Islands6.982

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 15.813. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 28 · 194rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

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 2018.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 12.511. 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 (2018). Crude Birth Rate, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/2018

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