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United States - Birth Rate 1971

Name: United States Birth Rate 1971
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

17.2 −1.2 from 1970 Global rank: 36th

United States's birth rate was 17.2 in 1971, decreased +1.2 from 18.4 in 1970. This was the 36th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1971▾

Birth Rate by Country - 1971
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Macao SAR, China	10.1	-1.9%
2nd	Germany	12.9	-3.7%
3rd	Luxembourg	13.0	0.0%
4th	Finland	13.2	-5.7%
5th	Isle of Man	13.8	-0.4%
6th	Channel Islands	13.9	-1.4%
7th	Sweden	14.1	2.9%
8th	Austria	14.5	-3.3%
9th	Hungary	14.5	-1.4%
10th	Belgium	14.6	-0.7%
11th	Croatia	14.6	5.8%
12th	Latvia	14.8	1.4%
13th	Nauru	15.2	0.6%
14th	Denmark	15.2	5.6%
15th	Russian Federation	15.3	3.7%
16th	Ukraine	15.4	2.3%
17th	Switzerland	15.5	-3.7%
18th	Serbia	15.5	0.4%
19th	Monaco	15.6	-0.3%
20th	Czechia	15.7	4.7%
21st	Bulgaria	15.9	-2.5%
22nd	Greece	16.0	-3.0%
23rd	Estonia	16.1	1.9%
24th	United Kingdom	16.1	-0.6%
25th	Liechtenstein	16.2	-19.0%
26th	European Union	16.2	-1.1%
27th	Slovenia	16.3	2.5%
28th	Belarus	16.4	0.8%
29th	France	16.7	-1.8%
30th	San Marino	16.7	-1.3%
31st	Canada	16.8	-3.4%
32nd	Italy	16.8	0.6%
33rd	Norway	16.8	0.6%
34th	Netherlands	17.2	-6.0%
35th	Poland	17.2	2.4%
36th	United States	17.2	-6.5%
37th	Bermuda	17.5	-0.5%
38th	Lithuania	17.6	-0.6%
39th	Slovak Republic	18.2	2.2%
40th	Malta	18.4	4.5%
41st	Japan	19.2	2.1%
42nd	Spain	19.6	0.5%
43rd	Romania	19.6	-7.1%
44th	Andorra	19.6	1.1%
45th	Georgia	19.7	-0.2%
46th	Hong Kong SAR, China	19.7	-1.5%
47th	Uruguay	20.0	-0.5%
48th	Moldova	20.2	1.4%
49th	Faroe Islands	20.2	-4.3%
50th	Iceland	20.8	5.6%
51st	Portugal	21.0	1.0%
52nd	Montenegro	21.1	0.0%
53rd	Australia	21.4	3.9%
54th	Greenland	21.8	-11.7%
55th	Gibraltar	21.8	0.1%
56th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22.1	-0.6%
57th	Singapore	22.3	0.9%
58th	New Zealand	22.5	2.3%
59th	Ireland	22.6	3.7%
60th	Cyprus	22.7	0.2%
61st	Armenia	23.1	-1.0%
62nd	Aruba	23.2	-3.0%
63rd	Argentina	23.6	0.9%
64th	Curaçao	23.9	-5.0%
65th	Cayman Islands	24.3	-23.4%
66th	North Macedonia	24.7	-1.4%
67th	Antigua and Barbuda	25.0	-2.2%
68th	Barbados	25.1	4.3%
69th	Puerto Rico (US)	25.6	3.2%
70th	St. Kitts and Nevis	25.9	0.2%
71st	Mauritius	26.1	-5.1%
72nd	Kazakhstan	26.2	1.7%
73rd	Trinidad and Tobago	27.2	0.0%
74th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	27.5	-1.6%
75th	Israel	28.0	7.3%
76th	Chile	28.1	-2.4%
77th	Cuba	28.5	-4.5%
78th	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.6	-5.1%
79th	Guam	29.8	-1.0%
80th	United Arab Emirates	29.9	-3.8%
81st	Tuvalu	30.0	-1.6%
82nd	Azerbaijan	30.2	-3.6%
83rd	Sri Lanka	30.2	-3.0%
84th	China	30.7	-8.3%
85th	Virgin Islands (US)	30.8	-1.3%
86th	Dominica	31.0	-3.0%
87th	Bahamas, The	31.0	-3.5%
88th	Korea	31.2	0.0%
89th	Costa Rica	31.6	-3.1%
90th	Suriname	32.8	-2.9%
91st	Lebanon	33.0	-1.4%
92nd	Albania	33.1	-0.9%
93rd	Jamaica	33.1	-1.9%
94th	Malaysia	33.2	-1.6%
95th	British Virgin Islands	33.2	-3.2%
96th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	33.4	-5.3%
97th	Seychelles	33.6	11.3%
98th	Grenada	33.7	-3.0%
99th	Fiji	34.2	-2.9%
100th	Brunei Darussalam	34.6	1.1%
101st	Kyrgyz Republic	34.7	0.3%
102nd	New Caledonia	34.9	-0.3%
103rd	Brazil	34.9	-1.0%
104th	Colombia	35.4	-2.9%
105th	Bahrain	35.5	-7.3%
106th	Gabon	35.5	1.4%
107th	Thailand	35.6	-3.1%
108th	Viet Nam	35.7	1.4%
109th	Palau	35.7	-3.5%
110th	American Samoa	36.2	-1.5%
111th	Paraguay	36.3	-1.7%
112th	French Polynesia	36.5	-3.2%
113th	Guyana	36.6	-1.0%
114th	Panama	36.7	-1.7%
115th	Myanmar	37.0	-1.0%
116th	Kiribati	37.4	-1.8%
117th	St. Lucia	37.4	-2.8%
118th	Turkmenistan	37.7	-1.3%
119th	Tonga	37.8	-2.5%
120th	Kosovo	37.8	-3.0%
121st	Uzbekistan	37.8	-0.6%
122nd	St. Martin (French part)	38.4	-1.5%
123rd	Belize	38.6	1.6%
124th	South Africa	39.3	-0.3%
125th	Indonesia	39.4	-2.1%
126th	Philippines	39.5	-1.5%
127th	São Tomé and Principe	39.5	1.8%
128th	Guinea-Bissau	39.5	2.4%
129th	India	39.7	-0.1%
130th	Qatar	40.0	-9.7%
131st	Mongolia	40.0	-0.9%
132nd	Northern Mariana Islands	40.1	-3.3%
133rd	Türkiye	40.1	-1.1%
134th	Cambodia	40.3	-4.1%
135th	Samoa	40.3	-2.4%
136th	Tunisia	40.3	-1.8%
137th	Lesotho	40.5	-0.8%
138th	Ecuador	40.7	-1.3%
139th	Haiti	40.7	-0.2%
140th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	40.9	-2.7%
141st	Dominican Republic	41.2	-1.7%
142nd	Cabo Verde	41.5	2.3%
143rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	41.8	-0.3%
144th	Peru	41.8	-1.3%
145th	Tajikistan	42.1	-0.4%
146th	Vanuatu	42.1	-0.4%
147th	Timor-Leste	42.1	-1.6%
148th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	42.4	-2.8%
149th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	42.4	-0.7%
150th	Kuwait	42.5	-2.1%
151st	Equatorial Guinea	42.6	1.2%
152nd	Nepal	42.7	-0.4%
153rd	El Salvador	42.8	0.1%
154th	Central African Republic	43.1	-0.7%
155th	Namibia	43.6	0.2%
156th	Papua New Guinea	43.7	-0.8%
157th	Mexico	43.9	-1.5%
158th	Micronesia, Federated States of	43.9	0.3%
159th	Pakistan	43.9	-0.3%
160th	Solomon Islands	44.2	-0.2%
161st	Morocco	44.2	-1.2%
162nd	Lao PDR	44.3	-0.1%
163rd	Congo, Republic of	44.4	0.5%
164th	Guatemala	44.7	-0.4%
165th	Cameroon	45.1	0.5%
166th	Iraq	45.4	-0.6%
167th	Botswana	45.5	-0.5%
168th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	45.5	0.0%
169th	Guinea	45.6	0.1%
170th	Zimbabwe	45.6	0.2%
171st	Honduras	46.2	-0.2%
172nd	Syrian Arab Republic	46.2	-0.5%
173rd	Djibouti	46.2	-0.6%
174th	Algeria	46.3	-0.8%
175th	Libya	46.5	0.3%
176th	Eritrea	46.6	-0.8%
177th	Nicaragua	46.8	-0.2%
178th	Comoros	47.0	-0.5%
179th	Mauritania	47.0	-0.6%
180th	Mozambique	47.2	-0.7%
181st	Madagascar	47.2	0.8%
182nd	Sierra Leone	47.3	-0.2%
183rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	47.4	-0.4%
184th	Ghana	47.4	-0.6%
185th	Liberia	47.4	-1.0%
186th	Maldives	47.4	-1.1%
187th	Benin	47.5	0.0%
188th	Bhutan	47.5	-0.5%
189th	Chad	47.5	0.9%
190th	Gambia, The	47.6	0.5%
191st	Bangladesh	47.6	0.5%
192nd	Burkina Faso	47.6	-0.2%
193rd	Nigeria	47.8	0.8%
194th	Burundi	47.9	0.3%
195th	Saudi Arabia	48.4	-0.6%
196th	Jordan	48.4	-0.4%
197th	Rwanda	48.5	0.5%
198th	Marshall Islands	48.5	1.7%
199th	Togo	48.5	0.4%
200th	Sudan	48.9	0.1%
201st	Uganda	48.9	0.5%
202nd	Zambia	49.4	0.2%
203rd	Eswatini	49.5	0.9%
204th	Senegal	49.9	-0.1%
205th	Angola	50.2	-2.0%
206th	Mali	50.5	0.1%
207th	Tanzania	50.6	0.2%
208th	Oman	51.2	-0.6%
209th	Afghanistan	51.3	0.2%
210th	Kenya	52.2	-0.6%
211th	Côte d'Ivoire	52.4	-0.5%
212th	Malawi	53.7	-0.5%
213th	South Sudan	54.6	0.1%
214th	Niger	55.5	-0.1%
215th	Yemen, Republic of	55.8	-0.5%

FAQ

What was United States's birth rate in 1971?▾

United States's birth rate in 1971 was 17.2. This ranked 36th globally.

How did United States's birth rate change in 1971?▾

United States's birth rate decreased by 6.5% in 1971 compared to 1970.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 1971?▾

Yemen, Republic of had the highest birth rate in 1971 at 55.8.

What is the birth rate of United States in 1971?▾

The birth rate of United States in 1971 was 17.2. This ranked 36th globally.

How does 1971 compare to 1970 for United States's birth rate?▾

United States's birth rate went from 18.4 in 1970 to 17.2 in 1971, a 6.5% decrease.

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