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Ireland - Birth Rate 2008

Name: Ireland Birth Rate 2008
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

16.7 +0.5 from 2007 Global rank: 90th

Ireland's birth rate was 16.7 in 2008, increased +0.5 from 16.2 in 2007. This was the 90th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2008▾

Birth Rate by Country - 2008
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Germany	8.3	0.0%
2nd	Japan	8.7	1.2%
3rd	Macao SAR, China	8.7	0.0%
4th	Austria	9.3	1.1%
5th	Korea	9.4	-6.9%
6th	Serbia	9.4	2.0%
7th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9.5	-0.2%
8th	Italy	9.7	1.0%
9th	Malta	9.8	5.4%
10th	Croatia	9.9	5.3%
11th	Hungary	9.9	2.1%
12th	Liechtenstein	9.9	-1.0%
13th	Lithuania	9.9	6.5%
14th	Portugal	9.9	2.1%
15th	United Arab Emirates	10.0	-10.1%
16th	Switzerland	10.0	1.0%
17th	Singapore	10.2	-1.0%
18th	Bulgaria	10.4	4.0%
19th	Andorra	10.5	4.2%
20th	Channel Islands	10.5	0.0%
21st	European Union	10.6	2.4%
22nd	Greece	10.7	5.9%
23rd	Slovak Republic	10.7	5.9%
24th	British Virgin Islands	10.7	-3.2%
25th	Romania	10.8	4.9%
26th	Slovenia	10.8	10.2%
27th	Poland	10.9	6.9%
28th	Cuba	10.9	8.9%
29th	San Marino	11.0	17.0%
30th	Ukraine	11.0	8.0%
31st	Belarus	11.1	3.7%
32nd	Finland	11.2	0.9%
33rd	Latvia	11.2	2.8%
34th	North Macedonia	11.2	0.9%
35th	Netherlands	11.2	0.9%
36th	Qatar	11.2	4.1%
37th	Spain	11.3	3.7%
38th	Hong Kong SAR, China	11.3	10.8%
39th	Bermuda	11.5	-1.2%
40th	Canada	11.5	1.8%
41st	Czechia	11.5	3.6%
42nd	Luxembourg	11.5	0.9%
43rd	Isle of Man	11.6	-0.3%
44th	Puerto Rico (US)	11.8	-0.6%
45th	Denmark	11.8	0.9%
46th	Belgium	11.9	1.7%
47th	Sweden	11.9	1.7%
48th	Cyprus	12.0	3.0%
49th	Estonia	12.0	1.7%
50th	Russian Federation	12.0	6.2%
51st	China	12.1	0.3%
52nd	Monaco	12.2	6.0%
53rd	Albania	12.2	-1.8%
54th	Gibraltar	12.3	2.5%
55th	Thailand	12.5	-3.1%
56th	Norway	12.7	2.4%
57th	Barbados	12.8	-0.7%
58th	France	12.9	0.8%
59th	United Kingdom	12.9	2.4%
60th	Aruba	13.1	-2.3%
61st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	13.1	8.4%
62nd	Mauritius	13.2	-3.6%
63rd	Armenia	13.3	3.1%
64th	Montenegro	13.4	5.5%
65th	Palau	13.7	-0.5%
66th	Curaçao	13.8	3.0%
67th	Faroe Islands	13.8	-1.4%
68th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	13.9	0.5%
69th	Australia	14.0	-0.7%
70th	United States	14.0	-2.1%
71st	Moldova	14.3	4.1%
72nd	Trinidad and Tobago	14.3	-0.6%
73rd	Chile	14.4	1.1%
74th	Uruguay	14.4	-1.1%
75th	St. Lucia	14.6	-1.5%
76th	Dominica	14.7	-3.0%
77th	Georgia	14.7	8.1%
78th	Greenland	14.8	-2.0%
79th	Cayman Islands	14.9	0.8%
80th	New Zealand	15.1	-0.3%
81st	Iceland	15.2	4.1%
82nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	15.6	-2.0%
83rd	Virgin Islands (US)	15.8	-3.7%
84th	Brazil	15.8	-2.7%
85th	Bahamas, The	15.8	-1.8%
86th	Brunei Darussalam	16.0	0.5%
87th	Bahrain	16.2	-4.6%
88th	Turks and Caicos Islands	16.4	-4.2%
89th	Grenada	16.7	-0.8%
90th	Ireland	16.7	3.1%
91st	Jamaica	16.7	-3.3%
92nd	Costa Rica	16.8	1.2%
93rd	Antigua and Barbuda	17.0	9.0%
94th	Tunisia	17.0	1.4%
95th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	17.1	0.7%
96th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	17.1	3.2%
97th	New Caledonia	17.3	-1.7%
98th	Malaysia	17.4	1.6%
99th	Azerbaijan	17.4	-1.7%
100th	Viet Nam	17.7	0.7%
101st	Lebanon	17.8	-0.8%
102nd	Seychelles	17.8	1.1%
103rd	French Polynesia	18.0	3.7%
104th	Colombia	18.2	-1.9%
105th	Türkiye	18.2	-1.1%
106th	Sri Lanka	18.2	-3.2%
107th	Argentina	18.5	2.8%
108th	Kosovo	19.7	1.4%
109th	Cabo Verde	19.9	-3.5%
110th	Kuwait	20.0	-3.2%
111th	Myanmar	20.0	-1.9%
112th	El Salvador	20.0	-2.5%
113th	Bhutan	20.3	-2.4%
114th	St. Martin (French part)	20.5	-4.2%
115th	Indonesia	20.5	-2.2%
116th	Oman	20.6	3.3%
117th	Guam	20.8	-0.9%
118th	Mexico	20.8	-1.4%
119th	Maldives	20.9	4.8%
120th	Peru	20.9	-2.5%
121st	Saudi Arabia	21.3	-1.9%
122nd	Suriname	21.3	-1.1%
123rd	Panama	21.4	-0.8%
124th	Israel	21.5	1.9%
125th	Tuvalu	21.7	-0.8%
126th	Morocco	21.9	-0.3%
127th	Guyana	22.0	0.6%
128th	Dominican Republic	22.1	1.3%
129th	Ecuador	22.5	-0.5%
130th	India	22.5	-1.9%
131st	Kazakhstan	22.7	5.5%
132nd	Northern Mariana Islands	22.7	-6.1%
133rd	Paraguay	23.0	-0.1%
134th	Uzbekistan	23.2	4.1%
135th	Fiji	23.3	-1.8%
136th	Libya	23.4	-1.2%
137th	American Samoa	23.6	-3.5%
138th	Belize	23.7	-3.1%
139th	Bangladesh	23.7	-3.4%
140th	Nepal	23.7	-2.6%
141st	Algeria	23.7	3.8%
142nd	Mongolia	23.9	9.2%
143rd	Kyrgyz Republic	23.9	2.1%
144th	South Africa	24.3	5.4%
145th	Turkmenistan	24.4	1.7%
146th	Nicaragua	24.9	-1.1%
147th	Cambodia	25.9	-1.3%
148th	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.4	-2.5%
149th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	26.4	-1.6%
150th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	27.0	0.5%
151st	Philippines	27.1	0.4%
152nd	Honduras	27.5	-2.1%
153rd	Djibouti	27.6	-3.3%
154th	Lao PDR	27.9	-0.9%
155th	Haiti	28.3	-0.9%
156th	Botswana	28.4	0.2%
157th	Guatemala	28.7	-2.5%
158th	Jordan	28.7	1.8%
159th	Tonga	28.7	-1.1%
160th	Lesotho	29.6	0.5%
161st	Samoa	29.8	1.5%
162nd	Namibia	30.3	1.0%
163rd	Syrian Arab Republic	30.5	4.8%
164th	Tajikistan	30.6	2.1%
165th	Kiribati	30.8	1.6%
166th	Papua New Guinea	31.5	-1.2%
167th	Nauru	32.3	6.1%
168th	Eswatini	32.3	0.4%
169th	Vanuatu	32.5	2.0%
170th	Gabon	32.6	0.1%
171st	Ghana	32.8	-1.3%
172nd	Timor-Leste	33.1	-2.8%
173rd	Pakistan	33.6	1.0%
174th	Iraq	33.6	-2.5%
175th	Solomon Islands	33.8	-0.3%
176th	West Bank and Gaza	33.9	-5.5%
177th	Comoros	34.1	-0.1%
178th	Eritrea	34.1	-2.4%
179th	Marshall Islands	34.3	-3.5%
180th	Zimbabwe	36.4	2.0%
181st	Yemen, Republic of	36.9	-1.6%
182nd	Senegal	37.3	0.2%
183rd	Madagascar	37.5	-0.6%
184th	Rwanda	37.6	-3.1%
185th	Kenya	37.9	-1.2%
186th	Togo	38.0	-0.1%
187th	Congo, Republic of	38.0	2.1%
188th	Sudan	38.4	-1.2%
189th	São Tomé and Principe	38.5	-1.1%
190th	Equatorial Guinea	39.0	-1.0%
191st	Mauritania	39.1	0.1%
192nd	Gambia, The	39.2	-1.0%
193rd	Guinea-Bissau	39.3	-1.7%
194th	Tanzania	39.6	-1.5%
195th	Liberia	39.7	-1.8%
196th	Guinea	40.1	-0.3%
197th	Benin	40.4	-1.4%
198th	Côte d'Ivoire	40.5	-1.2%
199th	Sierra Leone	40.6	-1.1%
200th	Cameroon	40.7	-0.6%
201st	South Sudan	41.6	-1.6%
202nd	Mozambique	42.3	2.4%
203rd	Central African Republic	42.5	0.6%
204th	Afghanistan	42.5	-2.9%
205th	Malawi	42.6	-1.6%
206th	Zambia	42.6	-1.3%
207th	Nigeria	42.8	-0.2%
208th	Uganda	43.8	-1.7%
209th	Burkina Faso	43.9	-0.6%
210th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	44.0	0.1%
211th	Angola	45.5	-0.7%
212th	Burundi	46.7	-0.1%
213th	Mali	47.2	-0.4%
214th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	48.8	-0.3%
215th	Chad	49.5	-1.2%
216th	Niger	50.2	-0.8%

FAQ

What was Ireland's birth rate in 2008?▾

Ireland's birth rate in 2008 was 16.7. This ranked 90th globally.

How did Ireland's birth rate change in 2008?▾

Ireland's birth rate increased by 3.1% in 2008 compared to 2007.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 2008?▾

Niger had the highest birth rate in 2008 at 50.2.

What is the birth rate of Ireland in 2008?▾

The birth rate of Ireland in 2008 was 16.7. This ranked 90th globally.

How does 2008 compare to 2007 for Ireland's birth rate?▾

Ireland's birth rate went from 16.2 in 2007 to 16.7 in 2008, a 3.1% increase.

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