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Singapore - Birth Rate 1978

Name: Singapore Birth Rate 1978
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

16.8 +0.3 from 1977 Global rank: 42nd

Singapore's birth rate was 16.8 in 1978, increased +0.3 from 16.5 in 1977. This was the 42nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1978▾

Birth Rate by Country - 1978
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Macao SAR, China	7.7	26.5%
2nd	Germany	10.4	1.0%
3rd	Luxembourg	11.2	0.0%
4th	Austria	11.3	0.0%
5th	Sweden	11.3	-2.6%
6th	Switzerland	11.4	-1.7%
7th	Channel Islands	11.6	-1.7%
8th	Isle of Man	12.0	-0.8%
9th	Denmark	12.2	0.0%
10th	United Kingdom	12.2	4.3%
11th	Belgium	12.5	0.8%
12th	Liechtenstein	12.5	-0.8%
13th	Italy	12.6	-4.5%
14th	Netherlands	12.6	0.8%
15th	Norway	12.8	1.6%
16th	San Marino	13.1	0.9%
17th	Finland	13.5	-2.9%
18th	Latvia	13.7	-0.7%
19th	France	14.1	-1.4%
20th	European Union	14.4	-1.8%
21st	Bermuda	14.8	10.4%
22nd	Ukraine	14.9	0.3%
23rd	Japan	14.9	-3.9%
24th	Monaco	14.9	-1.3%
25th	Estonia	15.0	-1.3%
26th	Croatia	15.0	0.7%
27th	United States	15.0	-0.7%
28th	Serbia	15.1	-1.2%
29th	Cuba	15.1	-12.5%
30th	Andorra	15.2	-4.7%
31st	Canada	15.2	-1.9%
32nd	Lithuania	15.3	-1.3%
33rd	Bulgaria	15.5	-3.7%
34th	Greece	15.5	0.6%
35th	Australia	15.6	-1.9%
36th	Hungary	15.7	-6.0%
37th	Barbados	15.8	-14.3%
38th	Belarus	16.2	0.9%
39th	New Zealand	16.2	-5.9%
40th	Slovenia	16.3	0.6%
41st	Russian Federation	16.3	0.3%
42nd	Singapore	16.8	1.8%
43rd	Spain	17.3	-3.9%
44th	Hong Kong SAR, China	17.3	-1.1%
45th	Cyprus	17.4	1.6%
46th	Czechia	17.5	-1.7%
47th	Faroe Islands	17.5	-3.8%
48th	Portugal	17.5	-8.4%
49th	Greenland	17.7	-4.8%
50th	Aruba	18.0	6.2%
51st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18.0	-4.6%
52nd	Malta	18.2	-3.7%
53rd	China	18.3	-3.6%
54th	Gibraltar	18.5	2.3%
55th	Montenegro	18.6	-2.6%
56th	Iceland	18.6	3.3%
57th	Romania	19.0	-2.6%
58th	Poland	19.1	-0.5%
59th	Georgia	19.2	1.3%
60th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	20.1	-1.5%
61st	Uruguay	20.1	-2.4%
62nd	Korea	20.3	-10.6%
63rd	Cayman Islands	20.3	0.5%
64th	Slovak Republic	20.5	-0.5%
65th	Curaçao	20.6	-1.4%
66th	Dominica	20.8	-0.8%
67th	Ireland	21.1	0.5%
68th	Moldova	21.2	-0.5%
69th	North Macedonia	21.3	-2.8%
70th	Antigua and Barbuda	22.9	-4.1%
71st	Bahamas, The	23.6	-3.0%
72nd	Chile	24.0	-1.8%
73rd	Armenia	24.1	1.6%
74th	Puerto Rico (US)	24.1	-1.6%
75th	Israel	25.0	-4.9%
76th	Nauru	25.0	14.9%
77th	Palau	25.1	-6.5%
78th	Kazakhstan	25.2	-1.1%
79th	Cambodia	25.3	29.4%
80th	Argentina	25.4	-0.4%
81st	Grenada	26.6	-2.1%
82nd	Azerbaijan	26.8	0.1%
83rd	Guam	26.8	-5.6%
84th	Virgin Islands (US)	26.9	0.6%
85th	Mauritius	27.1	4.2%
86th	St. Kitts and Nevis	27.2	-3.0%
87th	British Virgin Islands	27.4	-1.4%
88th	Thailand	27.5	-4.0%
89th	United Arab Emirates	27.7	2.9%
90th	Trinidad and Tobago	27.8	2.1%
91st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	27.9	0.2%
92nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.4	-0.2%
93rd	Albania	28.5	-3.1%
94th	New Caledonia	28.6	-3.2%
95th	Jamaica	28.7	-1.5%
96th	Seychelles	28.9	11.6%
97th	Sri Lanka	29.0	2.4%
98th	Qatar	29.6	-2.3%
99th	Bahrain	29.7	-2.0%
100th	French Polynesia	29.9	-5.6%
101st	Costa Rica	30.2	0.6%
102nd	Suriname	30.4	-2.0%
103rd	Tuvalu	30.6	3.8%
104th	Malaysia	31.0	-0.9%
105th	Panama	31.1	-2.0%
106th	Colombia	31.5	-2.0%
107th	Brunei Darussalam	31.6	-1.9%
108th	Lebanon	31.7	-0.4%
109th	Kyrgyz Republic	32.0	-0.2%
110th	Guyana	32.0	-1.8%
111th	Brazil	33.0	-0.6%
112th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	33.1	-2.0%
113th	Fiji	33.6	1.0%
114th	American Samoa	33.8	0.4%
115th	Myanmar	34.1	-0.9%
116th	Northern Mariana Islands	34.1	-5.2%
117th	Viet Nam	34.3	-0.9%
118th	St. Martin (French part)	34.3	-1.4%
119th	Türkiye	34.5	-0.6%
120th	Uzbekistan	34.6	-2.2%
121st	Kosovo	34.9	-2.4%
122nd	Indonesia	34.9	-0.8%
123rd	Paraguay	35.1	0.3%
124th	South Africa	35.1	-1.4%
125th	Samoa	35.4	-0.7%
126th	St. Lucia	35.6	1.0%
127th	Tonga	36.0	0.7%
128th	Kiribati	36.2	1.3%
129th	Dominican Republic	36.3	-2.0%
130th	Ecuador	36.3	-1.7%
131st	Tunisia	36.4	-3.8%
132nd	Turkmenistan	36.5	-0.5%
133rd	Kuwait	36.8	-3.4%
134th	India	37.1	-1.1%
135th	Mexico	37.4	-1.9%
136th	Peru	37.7	-1.5%
137th	Philippines	37.8	0.9%
138th	Gabon	38.0	0.9%
139th	Mongolia	38.9	-0.3%
140th	Papua New Guinea	39.3	-1.6%
141st	Morocco	39.9	-1.7%
142nd	Haiti	39.9	-0.5%
143rd	Vanuatu	40.2	-0.1%
144th	El Salvador	40.4	-0.9%
145th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	40.5	-0.9%
146th	Timor-Leste	40.6	2.6%
147th	Tajikistan	40.8	-0.2%
148th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	40.8	-0.4%
149th	Lesotho	41.0	-0.2%
150th	Nepal	41.1	-0.1%
151st	São Tomé and Principe	41.4	0.4%
152nd	Iraq	41.4	-1.5%
153rd	Djibouti	42.4	-0.9%
154th	Belize	42.5	0.6%
155th	Solomon Islands	42.6	-0.8%
156th	Namibia	42.6	-0.4%
157th	Congo, Republic of	42.7	-1.2%
158th	Equatorial Guinea	43.0	-0.2%
159th	Micronesia, Federated States of	43.1	-0.3%
160th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	43.4	2.7%
161st	Pakistan	43.5	0.1%
162nd	Algeria	43.6	-0.7%
163rd	Cabo Verde	43.6	-0.6%
164th	Central African Republic	43.7	1.8%
165th	Guatemala	43.7	-0.4%
166th	Lao PDR	43.8	-0.7%
167th	Ghana	44.1	-0.6%
168th	Nicaragua	44.9	-1.0%
169th	Syrian Arab Republic	44.9	-0.9%
170th	Jordan	45.0	-1.4%
171st	Sudan	45.0	-0.6%
172nd	Botswana	45.1	-1.6%
173rd	Eritrea	45.1	-0.7%
174th	Mauritania	45.2	-0.6%
175th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	45.2	-2.1%
176th	Libya	45.2	-0.6%
177th	Honduras	45.3	-0.9%
178th	Guinea-Bissau	45.3	3.0%
179th	Bhutan	45.4	-0.8%
180th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	45.4	-1.1%
181st	Cameroon	45.4	-0.1%
182nd	Guinea	45.7	0.0%
183rd	Bangladesh	45.9	-1.1%
184th	Comoros	46.6	0.3%
185th	Maldives	46.6	0.3%
186th	Zimbabwe	46.8	0.6%
187th	Benin	46.9	-0.3%
188th	Sierra Leone	47.2	0.1%
189th	Togo	47.2	-0.9%
190th	Madagascar	47.4	0.0%
191st	Saudi Arabia	47.5	0.0%
192nd	Gambia, The	47.6	0.3%
193rd	Burundi	48.5	0.9%
194th	Chad	48.5	-0.6%
195th	Uganda	48.6	0.0%
196th	Zambia	48.7	-1.1%
197th	Liberia	48.7	0.5%
198th	Kenya	48.9	-0.6%
199th	Angola	48.9	0.1%
200th	Senegal	49.0	-0.6%
201st	Tanzania	49.2	-0.6%
202nd	Nigeria	49.3	0.3%
203rd	Burkina Faso	49.3	1.0%
204th	Côte d'Ivoire	49.9	-2.1%
205th	Eswatini	50.4	-0.4%
206th	Mali	50.4	-0.2%
207th	Mozambique	50.8	2.2%
208th	Oman	51.2	0.5%
209th	Afghanistan	51.3	-0.1%
210th	Marshall Islands	51.7	0.2%
211th	Rwanda	52.1	0.9%
212th	Malawi	52.4	0.0%
213th	South Sudan	52.7	-0.6%
214th	Yemen, Republic of	54.2	-0.3%
215th	Niger	56.0	0.9%

FAQ

What was Singapore's birth rate in 1978?▾

Singapore's birth rate in 1978 was 16.8. This ranked 42nd globally.

How did Singapore's birth rate change in 1978?▾

Singapore's birth rate increased by 1.8% in 1978 compared to 1977.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 1978?▾

Niger had the highest birth rate in 1978 at 56.0.

What is the birth rate of Singapore in 1978?▾

The birth rate of Singapore in 1978 was 16.8. This ranked 42nd globally.

How does 1978 compare to 1977 for Singapore's birth rate?▾

Singapore's birth rate went from 16.5 in 1977 to 16.8 in 1978, a 1.8% increase.

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