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Kuwait – Birth Rate 2018

Crude birth rate per 1,000 people. Number of live births occurring during the year per 1,000 midyear population. · World Bank
12.8 −1.4 from 2017 G20 rank: 86th

Kuwait's birth rate was 12.8 in 2018, decreased +1.4 from 14.3 in 2017. This was the 86th highest in the G20.

G20 Ranking – 2018
Birth Rate by Country – 2018
RankCountryValueYoY
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%