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Birth rate

Live births per 1,000 people. Not [fertility] — one year, one rate.

per 1,000 population

The file

Live births per 1,000 people in a given year. Annual from 1960; same geos as Fertility.

The indicator

SP.DYN.CBRT.IN is a flow rate, not children per woman. Rising Fertility and falling population can still mean a lower birth rate.

What the numbers show

Poland fell from ~16 to ~8 per 1,000; Germany and the US are lower still. Read with Fertility, Births (GUS) and Maternal mortality.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-21
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Birth rate”. World Bank Open Data (SP.DYN.CBRT.IN), 1960–2024, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-21. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/birth-rate/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
World202416.3
India202416.0
Brazil202412.1
United States202410.6
United Kingdom20249.9
France20249.7
Sweden20249.3
Netherlands20249.2
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
Germany20248.1
Czechia20247.7
Poland20246.9
China20246.8
Spain20246.5
Italy20246.3
Japan20245.7

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population