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

The average for 2022 based on 20 countries was 16.12 births per 1000 people. The highest value was in Haiti: 23.15 births per 1000 people and the lowest value was in Puerto Rico: 5.9 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
Haiti 23.15 1 1960 - 2022
Bolivia 21.6 2 1960 - 2022
Guatemala 20.86 3 1960 - 2022
Honduras 20.85 4 1960 - 2022
Paraguay 20.33 5 1960 - 2022
Nicaragua 20.02 6 1960 - 2022
Domin. Rep. 18.11 7 1960 - 2022
Panama 17.4 8 1960 - 2022
Peru 17.38 9 1960 - 2022
Ecuador 16.58 10 1960 - 2022
El Salvador 15.8 11 1960 - 2022
Venezuela 15.57 12 1960 - 2022
Mexico 14.64 13 1960 - 2022
Colombia 13.92 14 1960 - 2022
Argentina 13.79 15 1960 - 2022
Brazil 12.65 16 1960 - 2022
Chile 11.76 17 1960 - 2022
Costa Rica 11.69 18 1960 - 2022
Uruguay 10.42 19 1960 - 2022
Puerto Rico 5.9 20 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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