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Puerto Rico (US) - Birth Rate 1979

Name: Puerto Rico (US) Birth Rate 1979
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

23.4 −0.7 from 1978 Global rank: 71st

Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate was 23.4 in 1979, decreased +0.7 from 24.1 in 1978. This was the 71st 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 Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate in 1979?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate in 1979 was 23.4. This ranked 71st globally.

How did Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate change in 1979?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate decreased by 2.9% 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 Puerto Rico (US) in 1979?▾

The birth rate of Puerto Rico (US) in 1979 was 23.4. This ranked 71st globally.

How does 1979 compare to 1978 for Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate went from 24.1 in 1978 to 23.4 in 1979, a 2.9% decrease.

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