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Afghanistan - Birth Rate 1997

Name: Afghanistan Birth Rate 1997
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

52.1 −0.4 from 1996 Global rank: 214th

Afghanistan's birth rate was 52.1 in 1997, decreased +0.4 from 52.5 in 1996. This was the 214th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1997▾

Birth Rate by Country - 1997
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Bulgaria	7.7	-10.5%
2nd	Latvia	7.7	-4.9%
3rd	Russian Federation	8.6	-3.4%
4th	Czechia	8.8	0.0%
5th	Ukraine	8.8	-4.6%
6th	Belarus	8.9	-5.3%
7th	Estonia	9.0	-4.3%
8th	Hong Kong SAR, China	9.1	-8.1%
9th	Slovenia	9.1	-3.2%
10th	Spain	9.2	1.1%
11th	Italy	9.4	1.1%
12th	Japan	9.5	-2.1%
13th	Greece	9.6	1.1%
14th	Hungary	9.8	-3.9%
15th	Germany	9.9	2.1%
16th	Sweden	10.2	-5.6%
17th	European Union	10.5	-0.2%
18th	Serbia	10.5	-2.9%
19th	Austria	10.5	-6.2%
20th	Romania	10.5	2.9%
21st	Lithuania	10.6	-1.9%
22nd	Poland	10.7	-3.6%
23rd	San Marino	11.0	1.7%
24th	Slovak Republic	11.0	-1.8%
25th	Portugal	11.2	1.8%
26th	Belgium	11.4	-0.9%
27th	Switzerland	11.4	-2.6%
28th	Finland	11.5	-2.5%
29th	Monaco	11.5	2.2%
30th	Canada	11.7	-5.6%
31st	Macao SAR, China	12.1	-8.3%
32nd	Channel Islands	12.2	-0.8%
33rd	Croatia	12.2	3.4%
34th	Netherlands	12.3	0.8%
35th	Bermuda	12.4	-3.6%
36th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12.4	11.2%
37th	United Kingdom	12.5	-0.8%
38th	France	12.7	-0.8%
39th	Malta	12.7	-4.5%
40th	Denmark	12.8	-0.8%
41st	Andorra	12.9	1.1%
42nd	Isle of Man	13.0	-0.5%
43rd	Luxembourg	13.1	-4.4%
44th	Armenia	13.2	-8.7%
45th	Georgia	13.4	-2.1%
46th	Barbados	13.5	-3.3%
47th	Moldova	13.6	5.2%
48th	Australia	13.6	-2.2%
49th	Norway	13.6	-2.2%
50th	Cuba	13.8	6.3%
51st	Liechtenstein	13.9	6.1%
52nd	Cyprus	14.1	-5.3%
53rd	United States	14.2	-1.4%
54th	Ireland	14.4	3.6%
55th	Montenegro	14.4	-4.0%
56th	Korea	14.5	-3.3%
57th	Singapore	14.5	-4.6%
58th	North Macedonia	14.8	-7.9%
59th	Faroe Islands	15.2	-2.6%
60th	New Zealand	15.2	-0.7%
61st	Iceland	15.3	-5.0%
62nd	Gibraltar	15.3	-1.4%
63rd	Trinidad and Tobago	15.5	-3.4%
64th	Puerto Rico (US)	16.2	-4.1%
65th	United Arab Emirates	16.2	-6.5%
66th	Kazakhstan	16.5	-5.1%
67th	Cayman Islands	16.5	-1.1%
68th	China	16.6	-2.4%
69th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	16.6	-6.3%
70th	Azerbaijan	16.8	1.2%
71st	Thailand	16.8	-2.5%
72nd	Aruba	16.9	-3.5%
73rd	Uruguay	17.0	-1.7%
74th	British Virgin Islands	17.0	3.5%
75th	Virgin Islands (US)	17.2	-2.3%
76th	Mauritius	17.4	-4.9%
77th	Palau	17.5	-8.9%
78th	Curaçao	17.9	-3.7%
79th	Chile	17.9	-4.3%
80th	Qatar	18.0	-5.7%
81st	Sri Lanka	18.5	-3.1%
82nd	Tunisia	18.7	-5.3%
83rd	Dominica	19.1	-6.5%
84th	Seychelles	19.1	-9.5%
85th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	19.4	-3.1%
86th	St. Kitts and Nevis	19.5	1.4%
87th	Viet Nam	19.6	-6.8%
88th	Greenland	19.6	4.3%
89th	Bahamas, The	19.8	-3.3%
90th	Kosovo	19.9	-8.1%
91st	Antigua and Barbuda	19.9	-3.3%
92nd	Argentina	20.0	-2.3%
93rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	20.7	-4.0%
94th	Algeria	20.7	-7.2%
95th	Albania	20.8	-6.2%
96th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	20.8	-3.0%
97th	Bahrain	21.0	-1.4%
98th	Grenada	21.2	-3.9%
99th	Israel	21.4	0.5%
100th	French Polynesia	21.4	-5.1%
101st	Costa Rica	21.5	-3.2%
102nd	Libya	21.6	-0.9%
103rd	Brazil	21.6	-1.3%
104th	Kyrgyz Republic	21.6	-6.9%
105th	Brunei Darussalam	21.6	-3.4%
106th	Lebanon	22.1	-1.4%
107th	Mongolia	22.2	-4.7%
108th	New Caledonia	22.4	0.0%
109th	Jamaica	23.1	-3.7%
110th	Türkiye	23.5	-0.8%
111th	Indonesia	23.6	-1.2%
112th	St. Lucia	23.7	1.0%
113th	Turks and Caicos Islands	23.9	-1.6%
114th	South Africa	23.9	-3.8%
115th	Colombia	24.0	-1.4%
116th	Kuwait	24.1	-3.6%
117th	Myanmar	24.3	-1.9%
118th	Panama	24.4	-1.1%
119th	Guam	24.4	-1.1%
120th	Northern Mariana Islands	24.8	-3.1%
121st	Maldives	24.9	-9.0%
122nd	Morocco	25.1	-1.5%
123rd	Malaysia	25.4	-2.6%
124th	Peru	25.6	-2.8%
125th	Turkmenistan	25.7	-3.3%
126th	Mexico	25.8	-2.5%
127th	Suriname	25.8	-0.5%
128th	Fiji	25.8	-2.7%
129th	Uzbekistan	25.8	-6.3%
130th	Oman	26.1	-3.3%
131st	Dominican Republic	26.2	-4.0%
132nd	St. Martin (French part)	26.2	-0.3%
133rd	Ecuador	27.1	-2.0%
134th	Botswana	27.9	-2.5%
135th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	28.2	0.0%
136th	India	28.7	-1.8%
137th	Guyana	28.8	-1.4%
138th	Tuvalu	29.0	-2.7%
139th	Nauru	29.0	-1.1%
140th	Paraguay	29.6	-2.5%
141st	El Salvador	29.6	-2.4%
142nd	Bhutan	29.7	-5.2%
143rd	Tonga	29.8	-2.4%
144th	Nicaragua	30.0	-3.2%
145th	Lesotho	30.2	-0.6%
146th	American Samoa	30.2	-3.1%
147th	Saudi Arabia	30.3	-3.0%
148th	Bangladesh	30.4	1.2%
149th	Belize	30.6	-0.2%
150th	Philippines	30.8	-1.7%
151st	Cabo Verde	31.1	-4.3%
152nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	31.4	-2.5%
153rd	Cambodia	31.7	-11.6%
154th	Micronesia, Federated States of	32.2	-0.2%
155th	Eswatini	32.4	-2.3%
156th	Syrian Arab Republic	32.5	-2.4%
157th	Jordan	32.7	-4.0%
158th	Namibia	32.8	-0.5%
159th	Tajikistan	32.9	3.0%
160th	Vanuatu	33.3	-2.8%
161st	Zimbabwe	33.4	3.0%
162nd	Haiti	33.6	-1.7%
163rd	Djibouti	33.7	-3.3%
164th	Nepal	33.7	-4.6%
165th	Gabon	33.9	-0.7%
166th	Samoa	33.9	-0.6%
167th	Kiribati	34.1	-1.8%
168th	Papua New Guinea	34.8	-0.2%
169th	Ghana	35.6	-0.7%
170th	Honduras	35.7	-1.7%
171st	Lao PDR	36.2	-2.8%
172nd	Guatemala	36.5	-1.7%
173rd	Solomon Islands	36.7	-1.4%
174th	Comoros	37.3	-2.3%
175th	Iraq	37.3	-0.4%
176th	Pakistan	38.0	-2.1%
177th	Togo	38.3	-0.8%
178th	Congo, Republic of	38.4	0.0%
179th	Marshall Islands	38.6	0.1%
180th	São Tomé and Principe	39.2	-0.4%
181st	Senegal	39.2	-0.1%
182nd	Mauritania	39.4	-3.2%
183rd	Rwanda	40.5	8.8%
184th	Kenya	40.5	-0.2%
185th	Cameroon	40.9	-0.6%
186th	Timor-Leste	41.0	-0.8%
187th	Eritrea	41.2	-4.8%
188th	Sudan	41.6	-1.4%
189th	Liberia	41.7	-7.2%
190th	Tanzania	42.1	-0.7%
191st	Burundi	42.2	-5.6%
192nd	Yemen, Republic of	42.6	-1.3%
193rd	West Bank and Gaza	42.7	-0.8%
194th	Equatorial Guinea	42.8	-1.3%
195th	Central African Republic	43.0	-1.5%
196th	Gambia, The	43.2	-2.1%
197th	Benin	43.4	-0.8%
198th	Nigeria	43.5	-0.8%
199th	Guinea-Bissau	43.6	-0.6%
200th	Guinea	43.9	-0.5%
201st	Côte d'Ivoire	44.1	0.3%
202nd	Mozambique	44.3	-0.2%
203rd	Madagascar	44.4	-0.3%
204th	Burkina Faso	45.9	-0.4%
205th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	46.0	-2.2%
206th	Malawi	46.0	-0.5%
207th	Mali	46.1	0.6%
208th	Sierra Leone	46.3	-0.4%
209th	Zambia	46.3	-0.6%
210th	Angola	47.6	-0.9%
211th	Uganda	49.6	0.1%
212th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	50.8	-0.3%
213th	South Sudan	51.6	-1.9%
214th	Afghanistan	52.1	-0.7%
215th	Chad	52.4	-1.0%
216th	Niger	54.0	-0.1%

FAQ

What was Afghanistan's birth rate in 1997?▾

Afghanistan's birth rate in 1997 was 52.1. This ranked 214th globally.

How did Afghanistan's birth rate change in 1997?▾

Afghanistan's birth rate decreased by 0.7% in 1997 compared to 1996.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 1997?▾

Niger had the highest birth rate in 1997 at 54.0.

What is the birth rate of Afghanistan in 1997?▾

The birth rate of Afghanistan in 1997 was 52.1. This ranked 214th globally.

How does 1997 compare to 1996 for Afghanistan's birth rate?▾

Afghanistan's birth rate went from 52.5 in 1996 to 52.1 in 1997, a 0.7% decrease.

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