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Ghana - Birth Rate 1987

Name: Ghana Birth Rate 1987
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

42.2 −0.5 from 1986 Global rank: 171st

Ghana's birth rate was 42.2 in 1987, decreased +0.5 from 42.7 in 1986. This was the 171st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1987▾

Birth Rate by Country - 1987
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	San Marino	9.6	1.3%
2nd	Italy	9.7	-1.0%
3rd	Greece	10.6	-6.2%
4th	Denmark	11.0	1.9%
5th	Spain	11.0	-3.5%
6th	Japan	11.1	-2.6%
7th	Germany	11.2	2.8%
8th	Austria	11.4	-0.9%
9th	Luxembourg	11.4	-2.6%
10th	Switzerland	11.7	0.0%
11th	Belgium	11.9	0.0%
12th	Hungary	11.9	-1.7%
13th	Isle of Man	12.1	2.2%
14th	Finland	12.1	-1.6%
15th	Channel Islands	12.3	3.4%
16th	Portugal	12.3	-2.4%
17th	Croatia	12.5	-2.3%
18th	Sweden	12.5	2.5%
19th	Serbia	12.5	-2.8%
20th	European Union	12.6	-1.1%
21st	Andorra	12.6	0.1%
22nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	12.6	-3.1%
23rd	Czechia	12.7	-1.6%
24th	Netherlands	12.7	0.0%
25th	Norway	12.9	2.4%
26th	Slovenia	12.9	-0.8%
27th	Bulgaria	13.0	-3.0%
28th	Liechtenstein	13.2	2.3%
29th	Monaco	13.3	-2.4%
30th	United Kingdom	13.7	3.0%
31st	France	14.0	-0.7%
32nd	Bermuda	14.2	-1.1%
33rd	Canada	14.4	-0.7%
34th	Barbados	14.7	-5.1%
35th	Korea	15.0	-2.6%
36th	Ukraine	15.1	-4.1%
37th	Australia	15.4	2.7%
38th	Malta	15.4	0.7%
39th	Cayman Islands	15.6	-6.1%
40th	United States	15.7	0.6%
41st	Latvia	16.0	-0.6%
42nd	Belarus	16.1	-5.8%
43rd	Poland	16.1	-5.3%
44th	Slovak Republic	16.1	-4.2%
45th	Estonia	16.2	3.2%
46th	Lithuania	16.4	-1.8%
47th	British Virgin Islands	16.5	-2.1%
48th	Ireland	16.5	-5.2%
49th	Iceland	16.6	1.2%
50th	Singapore	16.6	12.2%
51st	Romania	16.7	1.2%
52nd	New Zealand	16.7	3.8%
53rd	Aruba	16.8	-0.9%
54th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.9	-2.2%
55th	Faroe Islands	16.9	-2.3%
56th	Gibraltar	17.1	-1.2%
57th	Montenegro	17.2	-1.9%
58th	Russian Federation	17.2	0.0%
59th	Cuba	17.3	2.0%
60th	Uruguay	17.9	0.8%
61st	North Macedonia	19.3	1.8%
62nd	Mauritius	19.3	3.8%
63rd	Cyprus	19.4	-3.6%
64th	Georgia	19.5	-3.9%
65th	Puerto Rico (US)	19.5	0.3%
66th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	20.3	-0.4%
67th	Antigua and Barbuda	20.4	0.3%
68th	Greenland	20.4	3.6%
69th	Thailand	20.7	-2.6%
70th	Curaçao	20.8	-0.6%
71st	Sri Lanka	20.8	-2.6%
72nd	Bahamas, The	21.7	0.8%
73rd	Palau	22.0	-0.4%
74th	Argentina	22.2	-0.8%
75th	Virgin Islands (US)	22.3	-5.7%
76th	Chile	22.5	0.0%
77th	Israel	22.7	-1.7%
78th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	23.2	-2.0%
79th	China	23.3	4.0%
80th	Moldova	23.4	-0.7%
81st	St. Kitts and Nevis	23.6	-2.8%
82nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	24.2	-3.8%
83rd	Seychelles	24.5	-6.5%
84th	Qatar	24.6	0.2%
85th	Macao SAR, China	24.7	-2.4%
86th	New Caledonia	24.7	0.9%
87th	Trinidad and Tobago	25.3	-5.3%
88th	Armenia	25.8	-2.6%
89th	Guam	25.9	1.0%
90th	Dominica	26.0	0.2%
91st	Albania	26.3	-0.2%
92nd	Jamaica	26.6	-1.8%
93rd	Northern Mariana Islands	26.7	13.2%
94th	Azerbaijan	26.8	-2.9%
95th	Kazakhstan	27.0	-3.0%
96th	United Arab Emirates	27.0	-4.4%
97th	Kuwait	27.0	-5.8%
98th	Brazil	27.4	-3.4%
99th	Colombia	27.5	-1.3%
100th	Indonesia	27.6	-2.0%
101st	Panama	28.0	-1.8%
102nd	Malaysia	28.3	-3.7%
103rd	Türkiye	28.3	-2.6%
104th	Bahrain	28.6	-1.4%
105th	Myanmar	28.9	-4.1%
106th	Lebanon	29.1	-0.3%
107th	Costa Rica	29.1	-2.5%
108th	Viet Nam	29.2	-4.8%
109th	Brunei Darussalam	29.8	-0.2%
110th	Tunisia	29.9	-4.4%
111th	Turks and Caicos Islands	30.0	-1.6%
112th	French Polynesia	30.1	-1.8%
113th	Guyana	30.6	-1.3%
114th	Ecuador	30.8	-2.4%
115th	Fiji	30.8	-1.5%
116th	Libya	31.1	-4.1%
117th	St. Lucia	31.1	-4.1%
118th	Dominican Republic	31.4	-1.2%
119th	Mexico	31.4	-2.9%
120th	Grenada	31.7	0.1%
121st	St. Martin (French part)	31.9	2.5%
122nd	Nauru	32.0	0.2%
123rd	Suriname	32.4	-0.7%
124th	Kosovo	32.4	0.8%
125th	Morocco	32.6	-3.2%
126th	Kyrgyz Republic	32.7	0.0%
127th	Peru	33.0	-1.7%
128th	South Africa	33.2	-1.2%
129th	Tonga	33.7	-2.0%
130th	Algeria	34.1	-5.6%
131st	American Samoa	34.4	1.5%
132nd	India	34.4	-2.2%
133rd	El Salvador	35.2	0.3%
134th	Samoa	35.5	-1.7%
135th	Philippines	35.9	-0.7%
136th	Uzbekistan	36.1	-2.4%
137th	Paraguay	36.1	-1.2%
138th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	36.6	-1.8%
139th	Tuvalu	36.9	-1.3%
140th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	37.1	-0.7%
141st	Botswana	37.2	-3.5%
142nd	Mongolia	37.2	-1.5%
143rd	Belize	37.3	-0.9%
144th	Micronesia, Federated States of	37.4	-1.8%
145th	Papua New Guinea	37.4	-0.4%
146th	Bangladesh	38.2	-2.9%
147th	Lesotho	38.3	2.1%
148th	Kiribati	38.6	-0.6%
149th	Namibia	38.6	0.6%
150th	Turkmenistan	38.6	-0.6%
151st	Gabon	38.7	-0.1%
152nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	38.8	-4.6%
153rd	Haiti	38.8	-0.3%
154th	Nepal	38.9	-0.5%
155th	Iraq	39.0	-0.1%
156th	Djibouti	39.1	-1.1%
157th	Nicaragua	39.1	-1.9%
158th	Congo, Republic of	39.4	-0.4%
159th	Zimbabwe	39.5	-3.5%
160th	Jordan	39.6	-2.0%
161st	Solomon Islands	39.7	-1.3%
162nd	Honduras	39.9	-1.6%
163rd	Syrian Arab Republic	40.3	-1.6%
164th	Vanuatu	40.4	-0.9%
165th	Bhutan	40.5	-1.6%
166th	Guatemala	40.7	-0.2%
167th	São Tomé and Principe	41.0	-0.1%
168th	Cabo Verde	41.7	-0.7%
169th	Saudi Arabia	41.9	-2.8%
170th	Mauritania	41.9	-0.7%
171st	Ghana	42.2	-1.2%
172nd	Lao PDR	43.0	-0.4%
173rd	Togo	43.0	-0.8%
174th	Tajikistan	43.1	1.6%
175th	Oman	43.2	-5.3%
176th	Timor-Leste	43.3	-1.0%
177th	Senegal	43.7	-1.6%
178th	Madagascar	43.8	-0.5%
179th	Eswatini	43.9	-3.3%
180th	Pakistan	44.0	-0.3%
181st	Sudan	44.2	-0.7%
182nd	Tanzania	44.3	-1.3%
183rd	Eritrea	44.5	-0.5%
184th	Cameroon	44.6	-0.4%
185th	Nigeria	44.8	-1.0%
186th	Maldives	45.3	-2.1%
187th	Comoros	45.6	-0.9%
188th	Marshall Islands	46.2	-2.3%
189th	Guinea	46.3	0.2%
190th	Kenya	46.3	-0.8%
191st	Congo, Democratic Republic of	46.5	-0.2%
192nd	Sierra Leone	46.6	0.0%
193rd	Liberia	46.7	-1.2%
194th	Equatorial Guinea	46.8	0.6%
195th	Benin	46.9	-0.4%
196th	Guinea-Bissau	47.2	-0.9%
197th	Zambia	47.3	-0.3%
198th	Côte d'Ivoire	47.7	-0.4%
199th	Rwanda	47.8	-2.5%
200th	Central African Republic	47.9	0.9%
201st	Burundi	48.0	-0.9%
202nd	Burkina Faso	48.2	-0.9%
203rd	Mali	48.4	-0.8%
204th	Gambia, The	48.5	-0.8%
205th	Malawi	48.6	-2.4%
206th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	49.3	1.0%
207th	Mozambique	49.4	0.3%
208th	Cambodia	49.5	-1.3%
209th	Chad	50.4	2.7%
210th	South Sudan	50.6	-0.1%
211th	Angola	50.8	0.1%
212th	Uganda	50.9	1.1%
213th	Afghanistan	52.2	0.1%
214th	Yemen, Republic of	52.5	-1.1%
215th	Niger	55.9	-0.3%

FAQ

What was Ghana's birth rate in 1987?▾

Ghana's birth rate in 1987 was 42.2. This ranked 171st globally.

How did Ghana's birth rate change in 1987?▾

Ghana's birth rate decreased by 1.2% in 1987 compared to 1986.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 1987?▾

Niger had the highest birth rate in 1987 at 55.9.

What is the birth rate of Ghana in 1987?▾

The birth rate of Ghana in 1987 was 42.2. This ranked 171st globally.

How does 1987 compare to 1986 for Ghana's birth rate?▾

Ghana's birth rate went from 42.7 in 1986 to 42.2 in 1987, a 1.2% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Ghana matched the Currency Crisis Pattern pattern in 1987. Historically: 128 occurrences, 35 successful (27%). Outcome 24 months later: 25.2%. View full analysis →

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