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European Union - Birth Rate 2018

Name: European Union Birth Rate 2018
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

9.5 −0.2 from 2017 Global rank: 28th

European Union's birth rate was 9.5 in 2018, decreased +0.2 from 9.7 in 2017. This was the 28th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2018▾

Birth Rate by Country - 2018
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Korea	6.4	-8.6%
2nd	Puerto Rico (US)	6.7	-8.2%
3rd	San Marino	6.8	1.5%
4th	British Virgin Islands	7.0	0.8%
5th	Andorra	7.2	-8.6%
6th	Hong Kong SAR, China	7.2	-5.3%
7th	Italy	7.3	-3.9%
8th	Japan	7.4	-2.6%
9th	Spain	7.9	-6.0%
10th	Greece	8.1	-1.2%
11th	Ukraine	8.1	-7.4%
12th	Portugal	8.4	1.2%
13th	Bermuda	8.4	-4.6%
14th	Channel Islands	8.5	-3.4%
15th	Finland	8.6	-5.5%
16th	Singapore	8.8	-1.1%
17th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.8	2.7%
18th	Isle of Man	9.0	-2.2%
19th	Croatia	9.0	1.1%
20th	Macao SAR, China	9.0	-10.9%
21st	Malta	9.2	0.0%
22nd	Serbia	9.2	0.0%
23rd	Bulgaria	9.3	-1.1%
24th	Slovenia	9.4	-4.1%
25th	Thailand	9.4	-3.7%
26th	Germany	9.5	0.0%
27th	Lithuania	9.5	-3.1%
28th	European Union	9.5	-2.2%
29th	Hungary	9.6	-1.0%
30th	Austria	9.7	-3.0%
31st	Netherlands	9.8	-1.0%
32nd	Belarus	9.9	-8.3%
33rd	Liechtenstein	9.9	11.2%
34th	Qatar	9.9	-1.1%
35th	Latvia	10.0	-6.5%
36th	Canada	10.1	-1.9%
37th	Cuba	10.2	0.6%
38th	Monaco	10.2	1.9%
39th	Mauritius	10.2	-4.7%
40th	Poland	10.2	-3.8%
41st	United Arab Emirates	10.2	-3.9%
42nd	Switzerland	10.3	0.0%
43rd	Luxembourg	10.3	-1.0%
44th	North Macedonia	10.3	-1.9%
45th	Belgium	10.4	-1.0%
46th	Norway	10.4	-2.8%
47th	Romania	10.4	-3.7%
48th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.5	-4.2%
49th	Curaçao	10.5	8.2%
50th	Cayman Islands	10.6	4.0%
51st	Denmark	10.6	0.0%
52nd	Slovak Republic	10.6	-0.9%
53rd	Czechia	10.7	-0.9%
54th	Aruba	10.8	-5.8%
55th	Antigua and Barbuda	10.8	-8.3%
56th	China	10.9	-14.1%
57th	Albania	10.9	-4.5%
58th	Estonia	10.9	3.8%
59th	Russian Federation	10.9	-5.2%
60th	United Kingdom	11.0	-3.5%
61st	Cyprus	11.0	-1.2%
62nd	Bahamas, The	11.3	-1.4%
63rd	France	11.3	-1.7%
64th	Sweden	11.4	-0.9%
65th	Barbados	11.5	-0.8%
66th	Montenegro	11.6	-2.5%
67th	United States	11.6	-1.7%
68th	Dominica	11.6	-1.5%
69th	Uruguay	11.7	-8.0%
70th	Chile	11.7	-0.6%
71st	New Zealand	11.8	-4.4%
72nd	St. Lucia	12.0	-1.0%
73rd	Gibraltar	12.0	-0.2%
74th	Iceland	12.0	0.8%
75th	Palau	12.0	-3.5%
76th	Trinidad and Tobago	12.1	-3.5%
77th	Armenia	12.3	-2.4%
78th	Jamaica	12.3	-2.3%
79th	Grenada	12.4	6.4%
80th	Ireland	12.5	-2.3%
81st	Turks and Caicos Islands	12.5	-1.4%
82nd	Australia	12.6	0.0%
83rd	Virgin Islands (US)	12.6	-1.6%
84th	Kosovo	12.7	-1.7%
85th	French Polynesia	12.8	-2.5%
86th	Kuwait	12.8	-10.0%
87th	Bhutan	12.9	-5.9%
88th	St. Kitts and Nevis	13.1	-2.0%
89th	Moldova	13.3	-3.5%
90th	Maldives	13.4	-6.6%
91st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	13.4	-0.3%
92nd	Faroe Islands	13.6	3.0%
93rd	Costa Rica	13.6	-1.4%
94th	Bahrain	13.6	-3.1%
95th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	13.7	-3.2%
96th	Azerbaijan	14.0	-4.1%
97th	Brazil	14.0	-0.7%
98th	Colombia	14.2	0.1%
99th	Georgia	14.3	-3.8%
100th	Greenland	14.6	-3.9%
101st	Malaysia	14.8	-3.4%
102nd	Brunei Darussalam	14.9	-2.7%
103rd	Sri Lanka	15.2	-1.4%
104th	New Caledonia	15.2	-0.6%
105th	Argentina	15.3	-5.1%
106th	Türkiye	15.4	-4.9%
107th	Viet Nam	15.4	-7.9%
108th	Cabo Verde	15.5	-8.0%
109th	Northern Mariana Islands	16.6	-4.4%
110th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	16.7	-7.7%
111th	El Salvador	16.7	-2.6%
112th	Peru	16.9	-1.9%
113th	Mexico	17.0	-1.0%
114th	Seychelles	17.1	-0.6%
115th	Indonesia	17.1	-2.2%
116th	American Samoa	17.2	-5.5%
117th	Tunisia	17.3	-4.5%
118th	Ecuador	17.5	-0.9%
119th	India	17.9	-0.5%
120th	Myanmar	18.1	-1.6%
121st	Lebanon	18.1	-3.0%
122nd	Suriname	18.1	-1.9%
123rd	Panama	18.5	-2.9%
124th	Morocco	18.6	-1.8%
125th	Syrian Arab Republic	18.9	-3.3%
126th	Oman	19.3	-4.4%
127th	Philippines	19.4	-5.6%
128th	St. Martin (French part)	19.4	1.3%
129th	Fiji	19.6	-2.1%
130th	Saudi Arabia	19.7	-0.4%
131st	Guam	19.8	-3.9%
132nd	Libya	19.8	-3.3%
133rd	Dominican Republic	19.8	-0.8%
134th	South Africa	19.9	-0.9%
135th	Bangladesh	20.1	0.4%
136th	Israel	20.8	-1.4%
137th	Nepal	21.1	-2.1%
138th	Belize	21.1	-0.7%
139th	Nicaragua	21.2	-2.0%
140th	Guyana	21.2	-3.7%
141st	Kazakhstan	21.7	1.2%
142nd	Paraguay	21.8	-1.5%
143rd	Djibouti	22.3	-1.7%
144th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	22.6	-1.5%
145th	Jordan	22.7	-2.3%
146th	Micronesia, Federated States of	23.1	-0.5%
147th	Cambodia	23.4	-1.2%
148th	Honduras	23.4	-0.5%
149th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	23.6	-9.6%
150th	Lao PDR	23.6	-2.1%
151st	Uzbekistan	24.0	3.5%
152nd	Algeria	24.1	-3.8%
153rd	Marshall Islands	24.1	-1.3%
154th	Tonga	24.1	-1.5%
155th	Haiti	24.2	-1.7%
156th	Guatemala	24.3	-3.4%
157th	Timor-Leste	24.5	-3.0%
158th	Mongolia	24.5	2.5%
159th	Tuvalu	24.9	2.6%
160th	Turkmenistan	25.5	-2.9%
161st	Botswana	25.9	-0.7%
162nd	Eswatini	26.4	-1.9%
163rd	Papua New Guinea	27.0	-1.5%
164th	Kyrgyz Republic	27.1	9.3%
165th	Lesotho	27.4	-3.1%
166th	Iraq	27.7	-2.3%
167th	Kiribati	28.1	-0.6%
168th	Ghana	28.4	-1.9%
169th	Samoa	28.5	-1.1%
170th	Kenya	29.0	-1.9%
171st	Namibia	29.1	-2.0%
172nd	South Sudan	29.1	-11.4%
173rd	Solomon Islands	29.1	-3.1%
174th	Eritrea	29.2	-1.2%
175th	Pakistan	29.3	-1.3%
176th	Tajikistan	29.5	-0.6%
177th	São Tomé and Principe	29.8	-2.5%
178th	West Bank and Gaza	30.5	-2.9%
179th	Gabon	30.5	-0.8%
180th	Nauru	30.7	-4.9%
181st	Comoros	30.9	-1.4%
182nd	Rwanda	31.2	-1.4%
183rd	Zimbabwe	31.3	-1.5%
184th	Vanuatu	31.4	-2.0%
185th	Senegal	31.6	-3.7%
186th	Gambia, The	32.3	-3.4%
187th	Guinea-Bissau	32.4	-2.0%
188th	Equatorial Guinea	32.4	-2.0%
189th	Congo, Republic of	32.8	-1.9%
190th	Liberia	33.0	-1.3%
191st	Malawi	33.2	-1.4%
192nd	Sierra Leone	33.3	-1.4%
193rd	Togo	33.4	-1.5%
194th	Madagascar	33.7	0.2%
195th	Sudan	35.1	0.1%
196th	Côte d'Ivoire	35.1	-4.1%
197th	Zambia	35.5	-1.3%
198th	Nigeria	35.7	-2.7%
199th	Burkina Faso	36.0	-4.6%
200th	Yemen, Republic of	36.0	-0.1%
201st	Guinea	36.3	-1.5%
202nd	Mauritania	36.6	-1.1%
203rd	Cameroon	36.9	-1.6%
204th	Benin	37.0	-2.3%
205th	Burundi	37.2	-3.6%
206th	Tanzania	37.3	-0.7%
207th	Afghanistan	37.6	-1.4%
208th	Uganda	37.7	-0.7%
209th	Mozambique	39.4	-0.8%
210th	Angola	40.1	-1.3%
211th	Mali	42.6	-2.0%
212th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	42.9	-0.2%
213th	Central African Republic	43.8	0.2%
214th	Niger	44.2	-1.9%
215th	Chad	44.4	-1.1%
216th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	45.7	-1.1%

FAQ

What was European Union's birth rate in 2018?▾

European Union's birth rate in 2018 was 9.5. This ranked 28th globally.

How did European Union's birth rate change in 2018?▾

European Union's birth rate decreased by 2.2% in 2018 compared to 2017.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 2018?▾

Somalia, Fed. Rep. had the highest birth rate in 2018 at 45.7.

What is the birth rate of European Union in 2018?▾

The birth rate of European Union in 2018 was 9.5. This ranked 28th globally.

How does 2018 compare to 2017 for European Union's birth rate?▾

European Union's birth rate went from 9.7 in 2017 to 9.5 in 2018, a 2.2% decrease.

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