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The number of crude births per 1000 people, per year, 2022:

The average for 2022 based on 27 countries was 8.93 births per 1000 people. The highest value was in Ireland: 11.2 births per 1000 people and the lowest value was in Italy: 6.7 births per 1000 people. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: births per 1000 people; Source: The World Bank
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Countries Birth rate, 2022 Global rank Available data
Ireland 11.2 1 1960 - 2022
France 10.6 2 1960 - 2022
Cyprus 10.02 3 1960 - 2022
Sweden 10 4 1960 - 2022
Denmark 9.9 5 1960 - 2022
Luxembourg 9.9 6 1960 - 2022
Belgium 9.8 7 1960 - 2022
Slovakia 9.7 8 1960 - 2022
Romania 9.6 9 1960 - 2022
Czechia 9.5 10 1960 - 2022
Netherlands 9.5 11 1960 - 2022
Hungary 9.3 12 1960 - 2022
Austria 9.1 13 1960 - 2022
Bulgaria 8.8 14 1960 - 2022
Croatia 8.8 15 1960 - 2022
Germany 8.8 16 1960 - 2022
Estonia 8.6 17 1960 - 2022
Latvia 8.5 18 1960 - 2022
Poland 8.3 19 1960 - 2022
Slovenia 8.3 20 1960 - 2022
Finland 8.1 21 1960 - 2022
Malta 8.1 22 1960 - 2022
Portugal 8 23 1960 - 2022
Lithuania 7.8 24 1960 - 2022
Greece 7.3 25 1960 - 2022
Spain 6.9 26 1960 - 2022
Italy 6.7 27 1960 - 2022



Definition: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.

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