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Crude Birth Rate, 2022

2022, 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, 2022 covers 222 countries. Central African Republic is highest, at 45.425; Vatican City is lowest, at 4.227. The middle country reads 14.009. Against 2021, 222 values changed (22 up, 200 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Birth Rate · Data for 2022

HighestCentral African Republic

45.425

LowestVatican City

4.227

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, 2022, 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, 2022: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa45.425
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa43.789
ChadTCDMiddle Africa43.350
NigerNERWestern Africa41.950
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa41.623
MaliMLIWestern Africa40.345
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa38.102
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa37.990
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia36.045
UgandaUGAEastern Africa35.800
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa35.637
YemenYEMWestern Asia35.407
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa34.844
GuineaGINWestern Africa34.381
BeninBENWestern Africa34.350
BurundiBDIEastern Africa34.306
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa34.268
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa33.542
SudanSDNNorthern Africa33.535
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa33.192
TogoTGOWestern Africa33.129
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa32.500
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa32.498
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa32.413
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa32.043

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Central African Republic45.425
  2. Somalia43.789
  3. Chad43.350
  4. Niger41.950
  5. DR Congo41.623

Lowest

  1. Vatican City4.227
  2. South Korea4.955
  3. Hong Kong5.668
  4. Ukraine5.679
  5. Puerto Rico5.745

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 14.009. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 22 · 200rose · 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 2022.

  • 219 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 12.394. 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

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

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UN DESA Population Division (2022). Crude Birth Rate, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-birth-rate/2022

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