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Puerto Rico (US) - Birth Rate 2015

Name: Puerto Rico (US) Birth Rate 2015
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

9.0 −0.7 from 2014 Global rank: 13th

Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate was 9.0 in 2015, decreased +0.7 from 9.7 in 2014. This was the 13th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2015▾

Birth Rate by Country - 2015
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Japan	8.0	0.0%
2nd	Italy	8.1	-2.4%
3rd	Hong Kong SAR, China	8.2	-4.7%
4th	Portugal	8.2	3.8%
5th	San Marino	8.2	-9.9%
6th	Greece	8.5	0.0%
7th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.5	1.4%
8th	Korea	8.6	0.0%
9th	Liechtenstein	8.7	-13.0%
10th	Croatia	8.9	-4.3%
11th	Germany	9.0	2.3%
12th	Spain	9.0	-2.2%
13th	Puerto Rico (US)	9.0	-7.2%
14th	Bermuda	9.1	2.4%
15th	Andorra	9.1	1.8%
16th	Serbia	9.3	0.0%
17th	Bulgaria	9.4	-2.1%
18th	Hungary	9.4	-1.1%
19th	Channel Islands	9.5	-3.1%
20th	Malta	9.7	1.0%
21st	Poland	9.7	-2.0%
22nd	Singapore	9.7	-1.0%
23rd	European Union	9.8	-1.1%
24th	Isle of Man	9.8	-3.4%
25th	Austria	9.8	2.1%
26th	Ukraine	9.8	-7.8%
27th	Slovenia	10.0	-2.9%
28th	Finland	10.1	-3.8%
29th	Mauritius	10.1	-4.7%
30th	Netherlands	10.1	-2.9%
31st	Denmark	10.2	1.0%
32nd	Romania	10.2	2.0%
33rd	British Virgin Islands	10.2	-5.4%
34th	Lithuania	10.3	3.0%
35th	Slovak Republic	10.3	1.0%
36th	Switzerland	10.5	1.0%
37th	Czechia	10.5	1.0%
38th	Monaco	10.6	-0.9%
39th	Thailand	10.6	-3.3%
40th	Qatar	10.6	-4.8%
41st	Estonia	10.6	2.9%
42nd	Cayman Islands	10.6	-5.3%
43rd	Canada	10.7	-1.8%
44th	Luxembourg	10.7	-1.8%
45th	Belgium	10.8	-3.6%
46th	Cuba	10.9	0.6%
47th	Macao SAR, China	11.0	-6.8%
48th	United Arab Emirates	11.0	-3.9%
49th	Latvia	11.1	1.8%
50th	North Macedonia	11.1	-2.6%
51st	Cyprus	11.2	0.9%
52nd	Norway	11.3	-1.7%
53rd	Aruba	11.6	-10.2%
54th	Sweden	11.7	-1.7%
55th	Barbados	11.8	-0.9%
56th	Montenegro	11.8	-2.5%
57th	Curaçao	11.9	-5.6%
58th	United Kingdom	11.9	-0.8%
59th	China	12.0	-13.3%
60th	France	12.0	-3.2%
61st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	12.2	-5.2%
62nd	St. Lucia	12.3	-0.7%
63rd	United States	12.4	-0.8%
64th	Albania	12.4	-4.9%
65th	Belarus	12.5	0.0%
66th	Faroe Islands	12.5	-6.0%
67th	Iceland	12.5	-6.7%
68th	Palau	12.6	-5.8%
69th	Antigua and Barbuda	12.6	2.3%
70th	Bahamas, The	12.6	-6.6%
71st	Turks and Caicos Islands	12.7	-1.9%
72nd	Australia	12.9	-2.3%
73rd	Gibraltar	13.0	-1.0%
74th	Trinidad and Tobago	13.0	-1.9%
75th	Dominica	13.1	-4.2%
76th	Chile	13.1	-2.4%
77th	Virgin Islands (US)	13.2	0.0%
78th	New Zealand	13.2	4.4%
79th	Russian Federation	13.3	0.0%
80th	Jamaica	13.3	-2.2%
81st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	13.4	0.1%
82nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	13.7	-1.6%
83rd	Grenada	13.9	-4.6%
84th	Armenia	13.9	-2.8%
85th	Ireland	13.9	-3.5%
86th	Uruguay	14.3	0.5%
87th	Brazil	14.7	-0.7%
88th	Costa Rica	14.7	-1.0%
89th	Kosovo	14.7	-6.8%
90th	Colombia	14.8	-3.2%
91st	French Polynesia	15.0	-5.1%
92nd	Greenland	15.2	6.3%
93rd	Moldova	15.2	-0.4%
94th	Bahrain	15.4	-1.7%
95th	Kuwait	15.4	-7.9%
96th	Bhutan	15.7	-4.7%
97th	New Caledonia	15.7	-1.8%
98th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	15.9	-1.4%
99th	Georgia	16.0	-0.4%
100th	Sri Lanka	16.0	-3.0%
101st	Brunei Darussalam	16.2	-2.3%
102nd	Malaysia	16.3	-2.3%
103rd	Maldives	16.7	-6.2%
104th	Seychelles	17.0	0.0%
105th	Türkiye	17.1	-2.3%
106th	Azerbaijan	17.2	-3.9%
107th	Cabo Verde	17.5	-3.4%
108th	Argentina	17.7	-2.0%
109th	Peru	17.9	-2.3%
110th	Mexico	18.2	-3.9%
111th	Ecuador	18.4	-2.9%
112th	Viet Nam	18.5	-0.9%
113th	Indonesia	18.6	-2.7%
114th	El Salvador	18.6	-2.3%
115th	Myanmar	18.6	0.3%
116th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	18.9	0.3%
117th	India	18.9	-0.8%
118th	Saudi Arabia	19.4	-2.1%
119th	Tunisia	19.4	-1.2%
120th	Suriname	19.5	-1.9%
121st	Morocco	19.5	-1.5%
122nd	Lebanon	19.6	3.9%
123rd	Northern Mariana Islands	19.8	-7.8%
124th	American Samoa	19.8	-2.4%
125th	Panama	19.8	-1.5%
126th	Guam	19.9	-1.4%
127th	St. Martin (French part)	20.0	-3.0%
128th	Bangladesh	20.3	-0.2%
129th	Dominican Republic	20.5	-1.5%
130th	Oman	21.0	-0.8%
131st	Fiji	21.0	-1.4%
132nd	South Africa	21.0	-3.6%
133rd	Syrian Arab Republic	21.3	-10.5%
134th	Israel	21.3	-0.9%
135th	Belize	21.7	-1.2%
136th	Libya	21.9	-3.1%
137th	Nepal	22.1	-1.1%
138th	Nicaragua	22.4	-1.7%
139th	Kazakhstan	22.5	-2.2%
140th	Guyana	22.5	-0.4%
141st	Paraguay	22.7	0.1%
142nd	Philippines	22.9	-2.0%
143rd	Tuvalu	23.3	1.6%
144th	Djibouti	23.6	-2.2%
145th	Micronesia, Federated States of	23.6	-0.9%
146th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	23.7	-1.6%
147th	Jordan	23.7	-2.8%
148th	Uzbekistan	24.0	0.6%
149th	Honduras	24.1	-1.2%
150th	Cambodia	24.2	-0.8%
151st	Lao PDR	25.0	-0.3%
152nd	Marshall Islands	25.2	-2.1%
153rd	Haiti	25.4	-1.2%
154th	Algeria	25.8	-1.0%
155th	Tonga	25.8	-2.1%
156th	Guatemala	26.2	-0.9%
157th	Botswana	26.5	-1.2%
158th	Timor-Leste	27.1	-3.5%
159th	Mongolia	27.1	-3.2%
160th	Kyrgyz Republic	27.4	-1.1%
161st	Turkmenistan	27.5	0.0%
162nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	28.2	-0.7%
163rd	Eswatini	28.3	-2.5%
164th	Papua New Guinea	28.4	-1.8%
165th	Kiribati	28.9	-1.6%
166th	Lesotho	29.2	-1.1%
167th	Samoa	29.8	-1.4%
168th	Eritrea	30.6	-2.9%
169th	Namibia	30.7	-1.1%
170th	Pakistan	30.7	-1.9%
171st	Kenya	30.9	-2.0%
172nd	Gabon	31.1	-1.0%
173rd	Ghana	31.1	-1.4%
174th	Iraq	31.6	-5.3%
175th	Solomon Islands	31.9	-2.0%
176th	Tajikistan	32.0	-0.7%
177th	Rwanda	32.1	-0.4%
178th	Comoros	32.8	-1.6%
179th	Vanuatu	32.8	-0.9%
180th	West Bank and Gaza	32.9	0.3%
181st	São Tomé and Principe	33.0	-3.6%
182nd	Madagascar	33.8	-1.2%
183rd	Zimbabwe	33.9	-4.2%
184th	Nauru	34.2	-1.3%
185th	Liberia	34.3	-2.5%
186th	Senegal	34.5	-2.7%
187th	Equatorial Guinea	34.5	-2.1%
188th	Sierra Leone	34.7	-2.7%
189th	Togo	34.7	-0.9%
190th	Congo, Republic of	34.9	-2.5%
191st	Guinea-Bissau	35.2	-2.5%
192nd	Malawi	35.3	-3.3%
193rd	South Sudan	35.4	-7.3%
194th	Sudan	35.7	0.5%
195th	Gambia, The	35.7	-3.1%
196th	Yemen, Republic of	35.9	0.6%
197th	Zambia	37.3	-2.0%
198th	Tanzania	37.6	-1.9%
199th	Cameroon	37.7	0.5%
200th	Guinea	37.8	-0.7%
201st	Mauritania	37.8	-0.9%
202nd	Côte d'Ivoire	38.8	-2.7%
203rd	Nigeria	39.0	-2.4%
204th	Benin	39.0	-0.9%
205th	Uganda	39.0	-1.8%
206th	Afghanistan	39.4	-0.7%
207th	Burkina Faso	40.0	-2.0%
208th	Mozambique	40.4	-0.9%
209th	Angola	41.8	-1.5%
210th	Burundi	42.3	-1.5%
211th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	43.2	-0.6%
212th	Central African Republic	43.3	-2.9%
213th	Mali	44.5	-1.1%
214th	Chad	46.5	-1.2%
215th	Niger	46.6	-1.3%
216th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	47.2	-0.6%

FAQ

What was Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate in 2015?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate in 2015 was 9.0. This ranked 13th globally.

How did Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate change in 2015?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate decreased by 7.2% in 2015 compared to 2014.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 2015?▾

Somalia, Fed. Rep. had the highest birth rate in 2015 at 47.2.

What is the birth rate of Puerto Rico (US) in 2015?▾

The birth rate of Puerto Rico (US) in 2015 was 9.0. This ranked 13th globally.

How does 2015 compare to 2014 for Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s birth rate went from 9.7 in 2014 to 9.0 in 2015, a 7.2% decrease.

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