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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Birth Rate 1979

Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Birth Rate 1979
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

20.2 +0.1 from 1978 Global rank: 61st

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate was 20.2 in 1979, increased +0.1 from 20.1 in 1978. This was the 61st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1979▾

Birth Rate by Country - 1979
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Macao SAR, China	10.4	34.2%
2nd	Germany	10.5	1.0%
3rd	Luxembourg	11.2	0.0%
4th	Austria	11.4	0.9%
5th	Switzerland	11.4	0.0%
6th	Denmark	11.6	-4.9%
7th	Sweden	11.6	2.7%
8th	Channel Islands	11.7	0.9%
9th	Italy	11.9	-5.6%
10th	Isle of Man	12.0	-0.5%
11th	San Marino	12.2	-6.8%
12th	Netherlands	12.5	-0.8%
13th	Belgium	12.6	0.8%
14th	Norway	12.7	-0.8%
15th	United Kingdom	13.1	7.4%
16th	Finland	13.3	-1.5%
17th	Latvia	13.8	0.7%
18th	France	14.0	-0.7%
19th	European Union	14.2	-1.6%
20th	Bermuda	14.2	-4.4%
21st	Japan	14.2	-4.7%
22nd	Liechtenstein	14.5	16.0%
23rd	Cuba	14.6	-3.7%
24th	Monaco	14.8	-1.0%
25th	Andorra	14.8	-2.4%
26th	Serbia	14.9	-1.4%
27th	Ukraine	14.9	0.2%
28th	Estonia	14.9	-0.7%
29th	Hungary	15.0	-4.5%
30th	Croatia	15.1	0.7%
31st	Australia	15.3	-1.9%
32nd	Bulgaria	15.3	-1.3%
33rd	Lithuania	15.3	0.0%
34th	Canada	15.4	1.3%
35th	Greece	15.5	0.0%
36th	United States	15.6	4.0%
37th	Russian Federation	15.8	-3.2%
38th	Spain	16.2	-6.4%
39th	Belarus	16.2	0.4%
40th	Barbados	16.2	2.7%
41st	Slovenia	16.3	0.0%
42nd	Portugal	16.6	-5.1%
43rd	New Zealand	16.7	2.6%
44th	Czechia	16.7	-4.6%
45th	Hong Kong SAR, China	16.8	-2.9%
46th	Singapore	17.1	1.8%
47th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.4	-3.5%
48th	China	17.8	-2.4%
49th	Aruba	18.0	0.0%
50th	Greenland	18.1	2.3%
51st	Montenegro	18.2	-1.9%
52nd	Cyprus	18.2	4.6%
53rd	Faroe Islands	18.4	5.1%
54th	Malta	18.6	2.2%
55th	Romania	18.6	-2.1%
56th	Gibraltar	19.1	3.1%
57th	Georgia	19.3	0.9%
58th	Uruguay	19.3	-4.0%
59th	Poland	19.6	2.6%
60th	Iceland	19.8	6.5%
61st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	20.2	0.7%
62nd	Slovak Republic	20.3	-1.0%
63rd	Curaçao	20.4	-1.0%
64th	Cayman Islands	20.7	1.9%
65th	North Macedonia	21.1	-0.8%
66th	Dominica	21.2	1.7%
67th	Moldova	21.3	0.8%
68th	Ireland	21.5	1.9%
69th	Bahamas, The	22.9	-3.0%
70th	Korea	23.0	13.3%
71st	Puerto Rico (US)	23.4	-2.9%
72nd	Chile	23.6	-1.9%
73rd	Palau	23.8	-5.2%
74th	Antigua and Barbuda	24.3	5.8%
75th	Israel	24.7	-1.2%
76th	Armenia	25.1	4.1%
77th	Argentina	25.1	-1.0%
78th	Kazakhstan	25.7	2.2%
79th	Virgin Islands (US)	26.4	-2.0%
80th	Guam	26.6	-0.7%
81st	Thailand	26.8	-2.4%
82nd	Grenada	26.9	1.1%
83rd	British Virgin Islands	27.0	-1.7%
84th	Azerbaijan	27.1	1.1%
85th	St. Kitts and Nevis	27.1	-0.2%
86th	Mauritius	27.5	1.5%
87th	Albania	27.5	-3.4%
88th	Seychelles	27.6	-4.5%
89th	Nauru	27.6	10.5%
90th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	27.8	-0.2%
91st	New Caledonia	28.0	-2.1%
92nd	United Arab Emirates	28.2	1.8%
93rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.3	-0.1%
94th	Trinidad and Tobago	28.4	1.9%
95th	Jamaica	28.6	-0.6%
96th	Qatar	29.0	-2.0%
97th	Bahrain	29.0	-2.3%
98th	Sri Lanka	29.3	0.9%
99th	French Polynesia	29.6	-1.0%
100th	Suriname	29.8	-1.9%
101st	Costa Rica	30.5	1.1%
102nd	Panama	30.7	-1.2%
103rd	Malaysia	30.8	-0.7%
104th	Brunei Darussalam	30.9	-2.2%
105th	Colombia	31.2	-0.9%
106th	Kyrgyz Republic	31.5	-1.7%
107th	Lebanon	31.5	-0.4%
108th	Guyana	31.7	-1.2%
109th	Northern Mariana Islands	31.9	-6.5%
110th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	32.1	-2.8%
111th	Tuvalu	32.3	5.4%
112th	Brazil	32.7	-0.7%
113th	Myanmar	33.7	-1.0%
114th	St. Martin (French part)	33.8	-1.6%
115th	Fiji	33.8	0.4%
116th	American Samoa	33.8	-0.1%
117th	Viet Nam	34.1	-0.6%
118th	Türkiye	34.2	-0.9%
119th	Kosovo	34.3	-1.6%
120th	Indonesia	34.4	-1.5%
121st	Cambodia	34.7	37.1%
122nd	Uzbekistan	34.8	0.5%
123rd	St. Lucia	34.9	-2.0%
124th	South Africa	34.9	-0.4%
125th	Tunisia	35.0	-3.7%
126th	Samoa	35.2	-0.6%
127th	Kuwait	35.6	-3.3%
128th	Paraguay	35.6	1.5%
129th	Ecuador	35.7	-1.6%
130th	Dominican Republic	35.8	-1.4%
131st	Tonga	36.1	0.3%
132nd	Mexico	36.2	-3.2%
133rd	Kiribati	36.2	0.0%
134th	Turkmenistan	36.4	-0.3%
135th	India	37.0	-0.4%
136th	Peru	37.1	-1.5%
137th	Philippines	37.6	-0.6%
138th	Gabon	38.2	0.6%
139th	Papua New Guinea	38.7	-1.7%
140th	Mongolia	38.7	-0.4%
141st	Morocco	39.5	-0.8%
142nd	Haiti	39.7	-0.6%
143rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	40.1	-1.1%
144th	El Salvador	40.1	-0.8%
145th	Vanuatu	40.3	0.2%
146th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	40.6	-0.7%
147th	Lesotho	40.8	-0.5%
148th	Namibia	40.8	-4.2%
149th	Nepal	40.8	-0.7%
150th	Tajikistan	40.9	0.1%
151st	Iraq	41.0	-1.2%
152nd	São Tomé and Principe	41.6	0.4%
153rd	Timor-Leste	42.0	3.4%
154th	Djibouti	42.2	-0.5%
155th	Congo, Republic of	42.2	-1.1%
156th	Solomon Islands	42.2	-0.8%
157th	Belize	42.5	0.0%
158th	Micronesia, Federated States of	42.7	-1.0%
159th	Equatorial Guinea	42.9	-0.3%
160th	Cabo Verde	43.2	-0.9%
161st	Algeria	43.3	-0.7%
162nd	Pakistan	43.5	0.0%
163rd	Lao PDR	43.5	-0.5%
164th	Guatemala	43.6	-0.2%
165th	Ghana	44.0	-0.2%
166th	Syrian Arab Republic	44.4	-1.2%
167th	Central African Republic	44.4	1.7%
168th	Jordan	44.5	-1.2%
169th	Nicaragua	44.6	-0.6%
170th	Mauritania	44.7	-1.1%
171st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.7	3.0%
172nd	Botswana	44.7	-0.8%
173rd	Libya	44.9	-0.8%
174th	Honduras	44.9	-0.9%
175th	Eritrea	44.9	-0.5%
176th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	44.9	-0.5%
177th	Bhutan	45.0	-0.9%
178th	Sudan	45.3	0.7%
179th	Cameroon	45.6	0.3%
180th	Bangladesh	45.6	-0.7%
181st	Guinea	45.7	0.1%
182nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	45.8	0.9%
183rd	Zimbabwe	46.3	-1.0%
184th	Maldives	46.6	0.0%
185th	Togo	46.7	-1.1%
186th	Comoros	46.7	0.4%
187th	Sierra Leone	47.0	-0.4%
188th	Madagascar	47.2	-0.3%
189th	Benin	47.4	1.1%
190th	Saudi Arabia	47.5	-0.1%
191st	Guinea-Bissau	47.8	5.5%
192nd	Gambia, The	47.8	0.5%
193rd	Zambia	48.2	-1.1%
194th	Chad	48.3	-0.5%
195th	Kenya	48.6	-0.6%
196th	Senegal	48.6	-0.9%
197th	Nigeria	48.8	-0.9%
198th	Tanzania	48.8	-0.8%
199th	Uganda	48.8	0.5%
200th	Liberia	48.9	0.5%
201st	Angola	49.0	0.2%
202nd	Burkina Faso	49.5	0.5%
203rd	Burundi	49.5	2.1%
204th	Côte d'Ivoire	49.6	-0.7%
205th	Eswatini	50.1	-0.6%
206th	Mali	50.7	0.4%
207th	Oman	51.4	0.4%
208th	Marshall Islands	51.6	-0.2%
209th	Mozambique	51.9	2.0%
210th	Afghanistan	52.0	1.4%
211th	South Sudan	52.3	-0.8%
212th	Malawi	52.4	0.2%
213th	Rwanda	52.5	0.9%
214th	Yemen, Republic of	54.9	1.2%
215th	Niger	56.3	0.4%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate in 1979?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate in 1979 was 20.2. This ranked 61st globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate change in 1979?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate increased by 0.7% in 1979 compared to 1978.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 1979?▾

Niger had the highest birth rate in 1979 at 56.3.

What is the birth rate of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1979?▾

The birth rate of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1979 was 20.2. This ranked 61st globally.

How does 1979 compare to 1978 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate went from 20.1 in 1978 to 20.2 in 1979, a 0.7% increase.

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