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Ireland - Birth Rate 1981

Name: Ireland Birth Rate 1981
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

20.9 −0.8 from 1980 Global rank: 65th

Ireland's birth rate was 20.9 in 1981, decreased +0.8 from 21.7 in 1980. This was the 65th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1981▾

Birth Rate by Country - 1981
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Denmark	10.4	-7.1%
2nd	San Marino	10.8	-6.2%
3rd	Germany	11.0	-0.9%
4th	Italy	11.0	-2.7%
5th	Channel Islands	11.3	-1.7%
6th	Sweden	11.3	-3.4%
7th	Switzerland	11.6	-0.9%
8th	Luxembourg	12.1	6.1%
9th	Isle of Man	12.1	0.6%
10th	Austria	12.4	3.3%
11th	Norway	12.4	-0.8%
12th	Netherlands	12.5	-2.3%
13th	Belgium	12.6	0.0%
14th	United Kingdom	13.0	-3.0%
15th	Japan	13.0	-4.4%
16th	Finland	13.2	0.0%
17th	Hungary	13.3	-4.3%
18th	European Union	13.6	-2.7%
19th	Bermuda	13.9	-4.9%
20th	Cuba	13.9	0.1%
21st	Bulgaria	14.0	-3.4%
22nd	Czechia	14.0	-6.0%
23rd	Spain	14.1	-7.2%
24th	France	14.1	0.7%
25th	Latvia	14.2	0.7%
26th	Liechtenstein	14.4	-6.5%
27th	Serbia	14.4	-1.4%
28th	Greece	14.5	-5.8%
29th	Monaco	14.6	-0.5%
30th	Croatia	14.6	-1.4%
31st	Ukraine	14.8	-1.4%
32nd	Lithuania	15.2	0.0%
33rd	Canada	15.3	-0.6%
34th	Slovenia	15.3	-2.5%
35th	Andorra	15.4	-0.1%
36th	Estonia	15.4	2.7%
37th	Portugal	15.4	-4.9%
38th	Australia	15.7	2.6%
39th	United States	15.8	-0.6%
40th	Russian Federation	16.0	0.6%
41st	New Zealand	16.1	0.1%
42nd	Belarus	16.3	-0.2%
43rd	Barbados	16.6	5.5%
44th	Malta	16.6	-6.2%
45th	Hong Kong SAR, China	16.8	-1.2%
46th	Macao SAR, China	17.0	24.4%
47th	Romania	17.0	-5.6%
48th	Faroe Islands	17.2	0.6%
49th	Aruba	17.4	-7.6%
50th	Singapore	17.6	0.0%
51st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.9	2.9%
52nd	Montenegro	18.2	-0.9%
53rd	Uruguay	18.2	-1.9%
54th	Cyprus	18.6	-6.3%
55th	Slovak Republic	18.6	-2.6%
56th	Iceland	18.8	-5.1%
57th	Poland	19.0	-3.1%
58th	Georgia	19.7	0.8%
59th	Gibraltar	19.7	0.1%
60th	North Macedonia	20.1	-3.3%
61st	British Virgin Islands	20.3	-20.4%
62nd	Curaçao	20.5	0.6%
63rd	Greenland	20.7	0.5%
64th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	20.8	3.6%
65th	Ireland	20.9	-3.7%
66th	China	20.9	14.8%
67th	Antigua and Barbuda	21.0	-4.3%
68th	Moldova	21.7	1.1%
69th	Cayman Islands	21.7	1.7%
70th	Puerto Rico (US)	22.0	-3.5%
71st	Bahamas, The	22.1	-1.2%
72nd	Palau	22.3	-2.4%
73rd	Korea	22.4	-0.9%
74th	Chile	23.0	-1.2%
75th	Dominica	23.3	5.4%
76th	Israel	23.6	-2.9%
77th	Argentina	24.3	-1.9%
78th	Grenada	24.8	-7.7%
79th	Virgin Islands (US)	25.3	-2.1%
80th	Mauritius	25.5	-6.3%
81st	Thailand	25.5	-2.8%
82nd	Northern Mariana Islands	25.9	-7.1%
83rd	Armenia	26.0	2.1%
84th	Guam	26.1	-2.8%
85th	Azerbaijan	26.3	-5.0%
86th	Albania	26.5	-1.0%
87th	Kazakhstan	26.6	-0.1%
88th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	26.8	-3.4%
89th	New Caledonia	27.2	-1.2%
90th	Qatar	27.8	-2.2%
91st	Bahrain	27.9	-1.8%
92nd	Seychelles	28.1	-2.8%
93rd	Sri Lanka	28.1	-1.6%
94th	Jamaica	28.3	0.1%
95th	St. Kitts and Nevis	28.4	2.8%
96th	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.7	2.0%
97th	United Arab Emirates	28.8	1.0%
98th	Trinidad and Tobago	29.3	0.7%
99th	Brunei Darussalam	29.7	-1.8%
100th	Panama	30.2	-0.7%
101st	Suriname	30.3	3.8%
102nd	Costa Rica	30.4	0.2%
103rd	French Polynesia	30.5	1.4%
104th	Kyrgyz Republic	30.7	3.7%
105th	Malaysia	30.8	0.2%
106th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	30.8	1.1%
107th	Colombia	30.8	-0.8%
108th	St. Martin (French part)	31.1	-4.7%
109th	Nauru	31.2	5.0%
110th	Lebanon	31.5	0.1%
111th	Guyana	31.6	0.5%
112th	Brazil	32.0	-1.2%
113th	Myanmar	32.9	-1.2%
114th	Indonesia	33.0	-2.0%
115th	Türkiye	33.1	-1.7%
116th	American Samoa	33.2	-0.9%
117th	Viet Nam	33.4	-0.2%
118th	Kuwait	33.6	-3.2%
119th	St. Lucia	33.6	-1.6%
120th	Kosovo	33.7	-1.8%
121st	Fiji	33.9	0.1%
122nd	Tunisia	33.9	-0.2%
123rd	Mexico	34.3	-1.9%
124th	Dominican Republic	34.4	-2.0%
125th	South Africa	34.6	-0.2%
126th	Ecuador	34.7	-1.5%
127th	Uzbekistan	34.7	-0.2%
128th	Samoa	35.0	-0.2%
129th	Tuvalu	35.0	3.8%
130th	Peru	35.9	-1.6%
131st	Tonga	36.0	-0.2%
132nd	Turkmenistan	36.5	0.3%
133rd	India	36.8	-0.8%
134th	Philippines	36.9	-0.8%
135th	Paraguay	36.9	1.9%
136th	Kiribati	37.4	1.5%
137th	Papua New Guinea	37.9	-0.7%
138th	Mongolia	38.4	-0.1%
139th	Gabon	39.0	1.0%
140th	Morocco	39.0	-0.7%
141st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	39.3	-1.0%
142nd	Haiti	39.3	-0.5%
143rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	39.4	-1.8%
144th	El Salvador	39.6	-0.6%
145th	Namibia	39.8	-1.9%
146th	Lesotho	39.9	-1.1%
147th	Iraq	40.2	-0.7%
148th	Nepal	40.3	-0.4%
149th	Tajikistan	40.7	-0.2%
150th	Vanuatu	40.8	1.3%
151st	Micronesia, Federated States of	41.4	-1.5%
152nd	Congo, Republic of	41.4	-0.8%
153rd	São Tomé and Principe	41.5	-0.2%
154th	Solomon Islands	41.7	-0.6%
155th	Djibouti	41.8	-0.5%
156th	Belize	41.9	-0.8%
157th	Algeria	42.2	-1.8%
158th	Equatorial Guinea	42.6	-0.4%
159th	Libya	42.6	-4.0%
160th	Cabo Verde	42.7	0.0%
161st	Syrian Arab Republic	43.0	-1.8%
162nd	Jordan	43.1	-1.8%
163rd	Lao PDR	43.3	-0.1%
164th	Guatemala	43.4	-0.5%
165th	Nicaragua	43.4	-1.5%
166th	Botswana	43.4	-2.7%
167th	Honduras	43.7	-1.4%
168th	Ghana	43.9	-0.4%
169th	Bhutan	44.0	-1.2%
170th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.2	-2.0%
171st	Mauritania	44.4	-0.3%
172nd	Pakistan	44.4	1.7%
173rd	Bangladesh	44.6	-1.3%
174th	Eritrea	44.8	-0.1%
175th	Sudan	45.6	0.8%
176th	Togo	45.6	-1.0%
177th	Cameroon	45.7	0.8%
178th	Guinea	45.7	-0.1%
179th	Central African Republic	45.8	1.5%
180th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	46.1	-0.1%
181st	Madagascar	46.2	-1.3%
182nd	Timor-Leste	46.3	6.8%
183rd	Zimbabwe	46.3	3.3%
184th	Maldives	46.5	-0.1%
185th	Chad	46.6	-5.9%
186th	Saudi Arabia	46.6	-0.9%
187th	Sierra Leone	46.8	-0.1%
188th	Comoros	46.9	0.2%
189th	Zambia	47.3	-0.4%
190th	Nigeria	47.9	-0.9%
191st	Tanzania	47.9	-0.9%
192nd	Senegal	47.9	-0.8%
193rd	Kenya	48.2	-0.1%
194th	Cambodia	48.2	2.2%
195th	Benin	48.2	0.6%
196th	Liberia	48.4	-0.5%
197th	Gambia, The	48.5	0.5%
198th	Guinea-Bissau	48.8	0.3%
199th	Uganda	48.8	0.2%
200th	Côte d'Ivoire	49.0	-0.5%
201st	Burkina Faso	49.4	-0.1%
202nd	Angola	49.4	0.5%
203rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	49.5	4.2%
204th	Eswatini	49.5	-0.7%
205th	Mali	50.4	-0.3%
206th	Marshall Islands	50.5	-1.2%
207th	Burundi	51.2	5.9%
208th	Oman	51.6	0.0%
209th	South Sudan	51.7	-0.6%
210th	Mozambique	51.9	-2.1%
211th	Malawi	52.4	-0.6%
212th	Rwanda	52.7	0.0%
213th	Yemen, Republic of	54.6	-0.4%
214th	Afghanistan	55.2	3.2%
215th	Niger	56.6	0.1%

FAQ

What was Ireland's birth rate in 1981?▾

Ireland's birth rate in 1981 was 20.9. This ranked 65th globally.

How did Ireland's birth rate change in 1981?▾

Ireland's birth rate decreased by 3.7% in 1981 compared to 1980.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 1981?▾

Niger had the highest birth rate in 1981 at 56.6.

What is the birth rate of Ireland in 1981?▾

The birth rate of Ireland in 1981 was 20.9. This ranked 65th globally.

How does 1981 compare to 1980 for Ireland's birth rate?▾

Ireland's birth rate went from 21.7 in 1980 to 20.9 in 1981, a 3.7% decrease.

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