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New Zealand - Birth Rate 2016

Name: New Zealand Birth Rate 2016
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

12.6 −0.6 from 2015 Global rank: 69th

New Zealand's birth rate was 12.6 in 2016, decreased +0.6 from 13.2 in 2015. This was the 69th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2016▾

Birth Rate by Country - 2016
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Japan	7.8	-2.5%
2nd	Italy	7.9	-2.5%
3rd	Korea	7.9	-8.1%
4th	San Marino	7.9	-3.7%
5th	Hong Kong SAR, China	8.3	1.2%
6th	Puerto Rico (US)	8.3	-7.8%
7th	Portugal	8.4	2.4%
8th	Andorra	8.4	-7.7%
9th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.5	-0.4%
10th	Greece	8.6	1.2%
11th	Spain	8.8	-2.2%
12th	Croatia	9.0	1.1%
13th	Bermuda	9.2	1.3%
14th	Channel Islands	9.2	-3.2%
15th	Serbia	9.2	-1.1%
16th	Bulgaria	9.4	0.0%
17th	Singapore	9.4	-3.1%
18th	Isle of Man	9.4	-3.4%
19th	British Virgin Islands	9.5	-6.7%
20th	Germany	9.6	6.7%
21st	Finland	9.6	-5.0%
22nd	Ukraine	9.6	-1.9%
23rd	Hungary	9.8	4.3%
24th	Malta	9.8	1.0%
25th	European Union	9.9	1.1%
26th	Slovenia	9.9	-1.0%
27th	Qatar	10.0	-5.9%
28th	Austria	10.0	2.0%
29th	Liechtenstein	10.0	14.9%
30th	Netherlands	10.1	0.0%
31st	Poland	10.1	4.1%
32nd	Thailand	10.1	-4.6%
33rd	Cayman Islands	10.3	-3.2%
34th	Cuba	10.3	-5.8%
35th	Lithuania	10.3	0.0%
36th	Luxembourg	10.4	-2.8%
37th	Mauritius	10.4	3.0%
38th	Romania	10.4	2.0%
39th	Switzerland	10.5	0.0%
40th	Canada	10.6	-0.9%
41st	Slovak Republic	10.6	2.9%
42nd	Czechia	10.7	1.9%
43rd	Estonia	10.7	0.9%
44th	United Arab Emirates	10.7	-2.5%
45th	Monaco	10.8	1.6%
46th	Belgium	10.8	0.0%
47th	Denmark	10.8	5.9%
48th	Macao SAR, China	11.0	0.0%
49th	North Macedonia	11.1	0.0%
50th	Curaçao	11.2	-5.9%
51st	Latvia	11.2	0.9%
52nd	Norway	11.2	-0.9%
53rd	Cyprus	11.5	2.3%
54th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	11.5	-5.9%
55th	Aruba	11.6	0.6%
56th	Antigua and Barbuda	11.7	-7.4%
57th	Barbados	11.7	-0.8%
58th	France	11.8	-1.7%
59th	United Kingdom	11.8	-0.8%
60th	Sweden	11.8	0.9%
61st	Albania	11.9	-4.5%
62nd	Bahamas, The	12.0	-4.9%
63rd	Iceland	12.0	-4.0%
64th	Gibraltar	12.0	-7.3%
65th	Montenegro	12.1	2.5%
66th	United States	12.2	-1.6%
67th	St. Lucia	12.2	-0.8%
68th	Belarus	12.4	-0.8%
69th	New Zealand	12.6	-4.8%
70th	Chile	12.7	-3.5%
71st	Palau	12.7	1.3%
72nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	12.8	0.9%
73rd	Trinidad and Tobago	12.8	-1.7%
74th	Australia	12.9	0.0%
75th	Russian Federation	12.9	-3.0%
76th	Dominica	12.9	-1.4%
77th	Jamaica	12.9	-2.8%
78th	Virgin Islands (US)	13.0	-1.5%
79th	Grenada	13.1	-5.8%
80th	Kosovo	13.2	-10.5%
81st	Ireland	13.4	-3.6%
82nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	13.5	0.3%
83rd	Armenia	13.5	-2.9%
84th	China	13.6	13.2%
85th	St. Kitts and Nevis	13.6	-0.9%
86th	Uruguay	13.7	-4.0%
87th	Faroe Islands	13.8	10.4%
88th	French Polynesia	14.0	-6.7%
89th	Brazil	14.1	-3.7%
90th	Costa Rica	14.2	-3.5%
91st	Colombia	14.3	-3.3%
92nd	Bahrain	14.6	-4.8%
93rd	Kuwait	14.7	-4.7%
94th	Greenland	14.8	-2.6%
95th	Bhutan	14.8	-5.4%
96th	Moldova	14.9	-2.3%
97th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	15.1	-4.7%
98th	Maldives	15.5	-6.9%
99th	Sri Lanka	15.7	-2.3%
100th	New Caledonia	15.7	-0.4%
101st	Brunei Darussalam	15.8	-2.8%
102nd	Malaysia	15.8	-3.3%
103rd	Georgia	15.8	-1.3%
104th	Azerbaijan	16.3	-5.2%
105th	Türkiye	16.6	-2.9%
106th	Argentina	16.8	-5.0%
107th	Viet Nam	17.3	-6.4%
108th	Cabo Verde	17.3	-0.8%
109th	Seychelles	17.4	2.4%
110th	Peru	17.6	-2.1%
111th	Ecuador	17.6	-4.0%
112th	Mexico	17.7	-2.9%
113th	El Salvador	17.7	-4.6%
114th	Indonesia	18.1	-2.3%
115th	Northern Mariana Islands	18.4	-7.2%
116th	Myanmar	18.6	-0.3%
117th	India	18.8	-1.0%
118th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	18.8	-0.5%
119th	Suriname	18.9	-2.8%
120th	Tunisia	19.0	-2.4%
121st	American Samoa	19.1	-3.4%
122nd	Lebanon	19.2	-1.8%
123rd	Morocco	19.2	-1.4%
124th	St. Martin (French part)	19.5	-2.7%
125th	Panama	19.5	-1.7%
126th	Saudi Arabia	19.6	0.8%
127th	Syrian Arab Republic	19.6	-7.9%
128th	Bangladesh	20.2	-0.1%
129th	Dominican Republic	20.2	-1.5%
130th	South Africa	20.3	-3.5%
131st	Oman	20.5	-2.1%
132nd	Fiji	20.6	-2.1%
133rd	Israel	21.2	-0.5%
134th	Libya	21.3	-3.1%
135th	Belize	21.4	-1.5%
136th	Guam	21.4	7.2%
137th	Philippines	21.8	-5.1%
138th	Nepal	21.9	-0.9%
139th	Nicaragua	22.1	-1.7%
140th	Guyana	22.3	-0.8%
141st	Kazakhstan	22.3	-0.8%
142nd	Paraguay	22.5	-0.8%
143rd	Djibouti	23.1	-2.1%
144th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	23.3	-1.6%
145th	Micronesia, Federated States of	23.4	-0.9%
146th	Uzbekistan	23.5	-2.0%
147th	Jordan	23.7	0.4%
148th	Tuvalu	23.8	1.8%
149th	Honduras	23.8	-1.2%
150th	Cambodia	24.0	-1.1%
151st	Lao PDR	24.6	-1.6%
152nd	Marshall Islands	24.7	-1.8%
153rd	Haiti	25.1	-1.3%
154th	Tonga	25.2	-2.3%
155th	Algeria	25.4	-1.4%
156th	Mongolia	25.9	-4.4%
157th	Guatemala	26.0	-1.0%
158th	Kyrgyz Republic	26.0	-5.1%
159th	Timor-Leste	26.2	-3.4%
160th	Botswana	26.3	-0.8%
161st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	26.7	-5.3%
162nd	Turkmenistan	26.9	-1.9%
163rd	Eswatini	27.6	-2.4%
164th	Papua New Guinea	27.9	-1.8%
165th	Kiribati	28.5	-1.2%
166th	Lesotho	28.9	-0.8%
167th	Samoa	29.3	-1.8%
168th	Iraq	29.8	-5.5%
169th	Pakistan	30.0	-2.4%
170th	Eritrea	30.1	-1.5%
171st	Ghana	30.2	-3.0%
172nd	Kenya	30.2	-2.3%
173rd	Namibia	30.3	-1.2%
174th	Tajikistan	30.9	-3.3%
175th	Gabon	31.0	-0.3%
176th	Solomon Islands	31.1	-2.4%
177th	São Tomé and Principe	31.7	-4.0%
178th	Rwanda	32.0	-0.4%
179th	Comoros	32.1	-2.1%
180th	West Bank and Gaza	32.3	-1.8%
181st	Vanuatu	32.5	-0.9%
182nd	Zimbabwe	32.7	-3.6%
183rd	Nauru	33.6	-1.9%
184th	Madagascar	33.6	-0.5%
185th	Equatorial Guinea	33.8	-2.1%
186th	Senegal	33.8	-2.0%
187th	Liberia	33.9	-1.2%
188th	Congo, Republic of	34.1	-2.4%
189th	Sierra Leone	34.2	-1.3%
190th	Guinea-Bissau	34.2	-2.8%
191st	Malawi	34.2	-3.0%
192nd	Togo	34.4	-0.7%
193rd	Gambia, The	34.6	-3.2%
194th	South Sudan	35.1	-1.0%
195th	Sudan	35.4	-0.8%
196th	Yemen, Republic of	36.0	0.3%
197th	Zambia	36.6	-1.9%
198th	Mauritania	37.4	-1.0%
199th	Guinea	37.4	-0.9%
200th	Tanzania	37.6	0.0%
201st	Côte d'Ivoire	37.7	-2.6%
202nd	Nigeria	37.8	-3.0%
203rd	Cameroon	37.8	0.1%
204th	Uganda	38.3	-1.9%
205th	Benin	38.6	-1.1%
206th	Afghanistan	38.7	-1.6%
207th	Burkina Faso	38.9	-2.8%
208th	Mozambique	40.1	-0.8%
209th	Burundi	40.1	-5.1%
210th	Angola	41.2	-1.6%
211th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	42.9	-0.8%
212th	Central African Republic	43.4	0.1%
213th	Mali	43.9	-1.3%
214th	Chad	45.5	-2.1%
215th	Niger	45.9	-1.5%
216th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	46.6	-1.3%

FAQ

What was New Zealand's birth rate in 2016?▾

New Zealand's birth rate in 2016 was 12.6. This ranked 69th globally.

How did New Zealand's birth rate change in 2016?▾

New Zealand's birth rate decreased by 4.8% in 2016 compared to 2015.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 2016?▾

Somalia, Fed. Rep. had the highest birth rate in 2016 at 46.6.

What is the birth rate of New Zealand in 2016?▾

The birth rate of New Zealand in 2016 was 12.6. This ranked 69th globally.

How does 2016 compare to 2015 for New Zealand's birth rate?▾

New Zealand's birth rate went from 13.2 in 2015 to 12.6 in 2016, a 4.8% decrease.

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