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The birth rate is 11.0 births/1,000 population, as of 2020. [80] This was the lowest birth rate since records began. There were 3,613,647 births in 2020, this was the lowest number of births since 1980. [80] 11.0 births/1,000 population per year (final data for 2020). 11.4 births/1,000 population per year (final data for 2019). [80]
The replacement fertility rate is 2.1 births per female for most developed countries (in the United Kingdom, for example), but can be as high as 3.5 in undeveloped countries because of higher mortality rates, especially child mortality. [11]
The 2024 average of 17 births per 1,000 total population equates to approximately 4.3 births per second or about 260 births per minute for the world. On average, two people in the world die every second or about 121 per minute.
This article includes a list of U.S. states sorted by birth and death rate, expressed per 1,000 inhabitants, for 2021, using the most recent data available from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
Birth rate should not be confused with the generally more useful total fertility rate, which adjusts figures to account for how many females of reproductive age there are. Data from Population Reference Bureau's 2020 World Population Data Sheet .
United States birth rate (births per 1000 population). [26] The United States Census Bureau defines the demographic birth boom as between 1946 and 1964 [ 27 ] (red). In the years after WWII, the United States, as well as a number of other industrialized countries, experienced an unexpected sudden birth rate jump.
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of births. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.