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Australia - Birth Rate 1988

Name: Australia Birth Rate 1988
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

14.9 −0.5 from 1987 Global rank: 34th

Australia's birth rate was 14.9 in 1988, decreased +0.5 from 15.4 in 1987. This was the 34th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1988▾

Birth Rate by Country - 1988
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	San Marino	9.7	1.3%
2nd	Italy	10.1	4.1%
3rd	Greece	10.7	0.9%
4th	Spain	10.8	-1.8%
5th	Japan	10.8	-2.7%
6th	Germany	11.4	1.8%
7th	Denmark	11.5	4.5%
8th	Austria	11.6	1.8%
9th	Hungary	11.7	-1.7%
10th	Belgium	12.1	1.7%
11th	Serbia	12.2	-2.9%
12th	Switzerland	12.2	4.3%
13th	Portugal	12.2	-0.8%
14th	Croatia	12.3	-1.6%
15th	Luxembourg	12.3	7.9%
16th	Isle of Man	12.4	2.5%
17th	Andorra	12.4	-1.5%
18th	Channel Islands	12.5	1.6%
19th	European Union	12.6	0.0%
20th	Netherlands	12.6	-0.8%
21st	Slovenia	12.6	-2.3%
22nd	Czechia	12.8	0.8%
23rd	Finland	12.8	5.8%
24th	Monaco	12.9	-2.8%
25th	Bulgaria	13.1	0.8%
26th	Sweden	13.3	6.4%
27th	Hong Kong SAR, China	13.4	6.3%
28th	Norway	13.7	6.2%
29th	France	13.8	-1.4%
30th	United Kingdom	13.8	0.7%
31st	Barbados	14.4	-2.2%
32nd	Canada	14.5	0.7%
33rd	Ukraine	14.6	-3.3%
34th	Australia	14.9	-3.2%
35th	Liechtenstein	14.9	12.9%
36th	Bermuda	14.9	5.1%
37th	Korea	15.1	0.7%
38th	Ireland	15.5	-6.1%
39th	Lithuania	15.5	-5.5%
40th	Latvia	15.6	-2.5%
41st	Poland	15.6	-3.1%
42nd	Malta	15.9	3.2%
43rd	Slovak Republic	15.9	-1.2%
44th	Aruba	16.0	-4.6%
45th	Estonia	16.0	-1.2%
46th	Russian Federation	16.0	-7.0%
47th	United States	16.0	1.9%
48th	Belarus	16.1	0.0%
49th	Cayman Islands	16.1	3.1%
50th	Montenegro	16.4	-4.2%
51st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.4	-2.5%
52nd	Romania	16.5	-1.2%
53rd	British Virgin Islands	16.6	0.8%
54th	Gibraltar	17.0	-1.0%
55th	New Zealand	17.4	3.7%
56th	Cuba	18.0	3.6%
57th	Uruguay	18.1	0.8%
58th	Faroe Islands	18.6	10.1%
59th	Iceland	18.7	12.7%
60th	North Macedonia	19.1	-0.6%
61st	Georgia	19.2	-1.7%
62nd	Puerto Rico (US)	19.3	-1.0%
63rd	Singapore	19.8	19.3%
64th	Cyprus	19.9	2.5%
65th	Mauritius	20.1	4.1%
66th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	20.2	-0.4%
67th	Thailand	20.2	-2.3%
68th	Sri Lanka	20.3	-2.4%
69th	Antigua and Barbuda	20.6	1.3%
70th	Curaçao	20.7	-0.5%
71st	Moldova	21.6	-7.7%
72nd	Bahamas, The	21.9	1.0%
73rd	Virgin Islands (US)	22.0	-1.3%
74th	Palau	22.0	0.0%
75th	Greenland	22.1	8.3%
76th	Argentina	22.2	0.1%
77th	China	22.4	-4.1%
78th	Chile	22.5	-0.2%
79th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	22.5	-2.8%
80th	Israel	22.6	-0.4%
81st	St. Kitts and Nevis	23.4	-0.8%
82nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	23.6	-2.7%
83rd	Seychelles	23.8	-2.9%
84th	Trinidad and Tobago	23.9	-5.7%
85th	Qatar	24.7	0.5%
86th	Macao SAR, China	25.0	1.2%
87th	New Caledonia	25.1	1.6%
88th	Armenia	25.1	-2.7%
89th	Northern Mariana Islands	25.3	-5.3%
90th	Kazakhstan	25.7	-4.8%
91st	Kuwait	25.7	-4.8%
92nd	Guam	26.0	0.5%
93rd	United Arab Emirates	26.0	-3.6%
94th	Dominica	26.1	0.2%
95th	Albania	26.2	-0.2%
96th	Jamaica	26.3	-1.0%
97th	Azerbaijan	26.4	-1.5%
98th	Brazil	26.5	-3.4%
99th	Colombia	27.2	-1.1%
100th	Indonesia	27.3	-1.1%
101st	Panama	27.5	-1.7%
102nd	Türkiye	27.7	-2.2%
103rd	Malaysia	27.8	-1.8%
104th	Myanmar	27.9	-3.6%
105th	Tunisia	28.2	-5.4%
106th	Bahrain	28.3	-1.2%
107th	Costa Rica	28.3	-2.7%
108th	Grenada	28.4	-10.5%
109th	Viet Nam	28.7	-1.8%
110th	Lebanon	28.9	-0.6%
111th	Turks and Caicos Islands	29.2	-2.7%
112th	Brunei Darussalam	29.5	-1.1%
113th	Libya	29.7	-4.4%
114th	St. Lucia	29.8	-4.1%
115th	Guyana	30.1	-1.5%
116th	Fiji	30.3	-1.4%
117th	Ecuador	30.4	-1.3%
118th	Mexico	30.4	-3.0%
119th	French Polynesia	31.3	3.7%
120th	Dominican Republic	31.3	-0.3%
121st	Kyrgyz Republic	31.5	-3.7%
122nd	Morocco	31.6	-3.3%
123rd	Suriname	31.9	-1.5%
124th	Kosovo	31.9	-1.6%
125th	Nauru	32.0	0.0%
126th	South Africa	32.0	-3.7%
127th	St. Martin (French part)	32.2	0.8%
128th	Peru	32.4	-1.6%
129th	Algeria	32.6	-4.3%
130th	Tonga	33.5	-0.4%
131st	India	33.9	-1.6%
132nd	Uzbekistan	34.4	-4.5%
133rd	El Salvador	34.9	-1.0%
134th	Samoa	35.1	-0.9%
135th	American Samoa	35.2	2.4%
136th	Philippines	35.6	-0.9%
137th	Paraguay	35.8	-1.0%
138th	Botswana	35.8	-3.6%
139th	Tuvalu	36.0	-2.4%
140th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	36.0	-1.6%
141st	Mongolia	36.4	-2.1%
142nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	36.9	-1.4%
143rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	36.9	-0.6%
144th	Bangladesh	36.9	-3.4%
145th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	37.0	-4.6%
146th	Belize	37.2	-0.1%
147th	Papua New Guinea	37.3	-0.4%
148th	Lesotho	37.4	-2.5%
149th	Zimbabwe	37.7	-4.7%
150th	Turkmenistan	37.8	-2.1%
151st	Kiribati	38.2	-1.0%
152nd	Nicaragua	38.4	-1.7%
153rd	Gabon	38.5	-0.6%
154th	Nepal	38.7	-0.5%
155th	Namibia	38.7	0.4%
156th	Djibouti	38.8	-0.8%
157th	Haiti	38.8	-0.2%
158th	Jordan	38.9	-1.8%
159th	Solomon Islands	39.2	-1.4%
160th	Congo, Republic of	39.2	-0.4%
161st	Honduras	39.3	-1.4%
162nd	Iraq	39.4	1.0%
163rd	Syrian Arab Republic	39.4	-2.3%
164th	Bhutan	39.8	-1.8%
165th	Vanuatu	39.9	-1.1%
166th	Saudi Arabia	40.7	-2.8%
167th	Guatemala	40.7	0.0%
168th	Oman	40.8	-5.5%
169th	São Tomé and Principe	40.9	-0.1%
170th	Cabo Verde	41.2	-1.0%
171st	Ghana	41.5	-1.7%
172nd	Mauritania	41.6	-0.8%
173rd	Eswatini	42.2	-4.0%
174th	Togo	42.5	-1.0%
175th	Senegal	42.7	-2.4%
176th	Lao PDR	42.8	-0.3%
177th	Timor-Leste	43.1	-0.5%
178th	Pakistan	43.8	-0.5%
179th	Tajikistan	43.8	1.5%
180th	Madagascar	43.8	0.1%
181st	Tanzania	44.0	-0.6%
182nd	Sudan	44.1	-0.2%
183rd	Maldives	44.2	-2.4%
184th	Cameroon	44.3	-0.7%
185th	Eritrea	44.3	-0.3%
186th	Nigeria	44.7	-0.3%
187th	Marshall Islands	45.0	-2.7%
188th	Comoros	45.0	-1.3%
189th	Kenya	45.6	-1.5%
190th	Guinea	46.2	-0.1%
191st	Liberia	46.2	-1.0%
192nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	46.4	-0.3%
193rd	Sierra Leone	46.4	-0.4%
194th	Rwanda	46.6	-2.6%
195th	Benin	46.6	-0.7%
196th	Equatorial Guinea	46.7	-0.2%
197th	Guinea-Bissau	46.8	-0.8%
198th	Côte d'Ivoire	47.1	-1.4%
199th	Zambia	47.1	-0.4%
200th	Burkina Faso	47.7	-1.0%
201st	Central African Republic	47.8	-0.3%
202nd	Burundi	47.9	-0.2%
203rd	Gambia, The	48.1	-0.7%
204th	Mali	48.2	-0.3%
205th	Mozambique	48.6	-1.7%
206th	Malawi	48.8	0.3%
207th	Cambodia	48.9	-1.2%
208th	Angola	50.7	-0.1%
209th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	50.8	2.9%
210th	Uganda	51.0	0.2%
211th	Chad	51.5	2.1%
212th	Afghanistan	51.7	-1.0%
213th	South Sudan	51.9	2.6%
214th	Yemen, Republic of	52.1	-0.9%
215th	Niger	55.5	-0.8%

FAQ

What was Australia's birth rate in 1988?▾

Australia's birth rate in 1988 was 14.9. This ranked 34th globally.

How did Australia's birth rate change in 1988?▾

Australia's birth rate decreased by 3.2% in 1988 compared to 1987.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 1988?▾

Niger had the highest birth rate in 1988 at 55.5.

What is the birth rate of Australia in 1988?▾

The birth rate of Australia in 1988 was 14.9. This ranked 34th globally.

How does 1988 compare to 1987 for Australia's birth rate?▾

Australia's birth rate went from 15.4 in 1987 to 14.9 in 1988, a 3.2% decrease.

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