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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.
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 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.
Among women aged 25-34 years, who accounted for more than 2 million births in 2023, the birth rate fell about 2.5%, while births among women aged 20-24 years fell by 4% to a record low rate.
China and the United States are grappling with falling birth rates but Germany has bucked the trend with a rise in births nine months after its first pandemic lockdown, testimony to recent family ...
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]
Births to moms 35 and older continued to rise, with the highest rates in that age group since the 1960s. Its report is based on a review of more than 99% of birth certificates issued last year.
Crude birth rate refers to the number of births over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is expressed as number of births per 1,000 population. The article lists 233 countries and territories in crude birth rate. The first list is provided by Population Reference Bureau. [1]