Crude birth rate

(births per thousand population)

India is the top country by crude birth rate in the world. As of 2020, crude birth rate in India was 13,496.25 births per thousand population that accounts for 16.71% of the world's crude birth rate. The top 5 countries (others are Nigeria, China, Pakistan, and Ethiopia) account for 38.57% of it. The world's total crude birth rate was estimated at 80,754.21 births per thousand population in 2020.

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What is crude birth rate?

The average number of children a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to the fertility rates of a given period and if they were not subject to mortality. It is expres