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United States - Birth Rate 1985

Name: United States Birth Rate 1985
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

15.8 +0.2 from 1984 Global rank: 39th

United States's birth rate was 15.8 in 1985, increased +0.2 from 15.6 in 1984. This was the 39th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1985▾

Birth Rate by Country - 1985
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	San Marino	9.5	-1.2%
2nd	Italy	10.2	-1.9%
3rd	Germany	10.5	1.0%
4th	Denmark	10.5	4.0%
5th	Luxembourg	11.2	-2.6%
6th	Switzerland	11.5	-0.9%
7th	Channel Islands	11.5	0.0%
8th	Austria	11.6	-1.7%
9th	Belgium	11.6	-0.9%
10th	Greece	11.7	-7.9%
11th	Sweden	11.8	4.4%
12th	Isle of Man	11.8	0.7%
13th	Spain	11.9	-3.3%
14th	Japan	11.9	-4.8%
15th	Hungary	12.2	3.4%
16th	Netherlands	12.3	1.7%
17th	Norway	12.3	1.7%
18th	Andorra	12.8	-1.2%
19th	Finland	12.8	-3.8%
20th	European Union	12.8	-1.3%
21st	Portugal	13.0	-9.1%
22nd	Czechia	13.1	-1.5%
23rd	Serbia	13.3	-2.3%
24th	Bulgaria	13.3	-2.2%
25th	United Kingdom	13.3	3.1%
26th	Croatia	13.3	-4.3%
27th	Slovenia	13.4	-1.5%
28th	Liechtenstein	13.9	-8.6%
29th	Monaco	13.9	-1.4%
30th	Hong Kong SAR, China	14.0	-2.8%
31st	France	14.2	-0.7%
32nd	Canada	14.9	-0.7%
33rd	Bermuda	14.9	4.2%
34th	Ukraine	15.4	-3.4%
35th	Latvia	15.4	-3.1%
36th	Estonia	15.5	-3.1%
37th	Australia	15.7	4.7%
38th	Romania	15.8	1.9%
39th	United States	15.8	1.3%
40th	New Zealand	15.8	-0.3%
41st	Iceland	16.0	-7.0%
42nd	Korea	16.1	-3.6%
43rd	Malta	16.1	-4.7%
44th	Barbados	16.3	0.9%
45th	Faroe Islands	16.3	5.8%
46th	Belarus	16.5	-2.9%
47th	Lithuania	16.5	0.6%
48th	Russian Federation	16.6	-1.8%
49th	Singapore	16.6	0.6%
50th	Cuba	16.7	1.3%
51st	Cayman Islands	17.1	-0.9%
52nd	Slovak Republic	17.5	-1.1%
53rd	Ireland	17.6	-2.8%
54th	Gibraltar	17.7	-2.5%
55th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.8	-2.7%
56th	Uruguay	17.8	0.0%
57th	British Virgin Islands	17.9	-1.5%
58th	Montenegro	17.9	-0.8%
59th	Aruba	18.0	-3.3%
60th	Poland	18.3	-3.7%
61st	Mauritius	19.0	-5.5%
62nd	North Macedonia	19.1	-0.5%
63rd	Puerto Rico (US)	19.4	0.5%
64th	Cyprus	20.2	-4.6%
65th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	20.4	-0.1%
66th	Georgia	20.6	0.7%
67th	Curaçao	21.0	0.3%
68th	China	21.0	5.7%
69th	Bahamas, The	21.3	-0.5%
70th	Thailand	21.7	-3.0%
71st	Greenland	21.7	8.5%
72nd	Antigua and Barbuda	21.7	5.1%
73rd	Northern Mariana Islands	22.0	-1.8%
74th	Palau	22.3	-1.5%
75th	Sri Lanka	22.4	-4.5%
76th	Chile	22.5	-0.2%
77th	Argentina	22.5	-1.9%
78th	Moldova	23.4	-1.3%
79th	Israel	23.5	-0.8%
80th	New Caledonia	24.0	-2.8%
81st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.0	-2.3%
82nd	Virgin Islands (US)	25.0	0.4%
83rd	Qatar	25.0	-2.7%
84th	Guam	25.3	1.8%
85th	St. Kitts and Nevis	25.5	-2.1%
86th	Dominica	25.8	0.6%
87th	Macao SAR, China	26.1	13.1%
88th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	26.4	-5.4%
89th	Albania	26.5	-0.2%
90th	Seychelles	26.5	-1.5%
91st	Azerbaijan	26.6	0.0%
92nd	Armenia	27.0	-0.5%
93rd	Trinidad and Tobago	27.7	-2.0%
94th	Jamaica	27.7	-2.1%
95th	Kazakhstan	28.2	2.0%
96th	Colombia	28.3	-2.5%
97th	United Arab Emirates	28.5	-0.9%
98th	Bahrain	28.8	2.1%
99th	Panama	29.0	-1.7%
100th	Brazil	29.2	-2.6%
101st	Indonesia	29.4	-4.9%
102nd	Türkiye	29.7	-2.4%
103rd	Lebanon	29.7	-2.5%
104th	Brunei Darussalam	29.9	0.7%
105th	Kuwait	29.9	-5.3%
106th	Malaysia	30.1	-1.6%
107th	St. Martin (French part)	30.4	3.9%
108th	Costa Rica	30.4	-0.3%
109th	Turks and Caicos Islands	30.7	1.1%
110th	Grenada	30.7	8.5%
111th	Guyana	31.4	-0.6%
112th	French Polynesia	31.4	2.0%
113th	Myanmar	31.4	-3.2%
114th	Tunisia	31.8	-1.1%
115th	Nauru	31.9	0.5%
116th	Kyrgyz Republic	32.0	0.0%
117th	Viet Nam	32.2	-3.4%
118th	Dominican Republic	32.2	-2.4%
119th	Fiji	32.3	-3.0%
120th	Ecuador	32.3	-2.7%
121st	Kosovo	32.5	-3.9%
122nd	Mexico	32.7	-1.0%
123rd	Suriname	32.9	-0.5%
124th	American Samoa	33.3	1.3%
125th	St. Lucia	33.6	0.4%
126th	Libya	33.7	-3.3%
127th	Peru	34.0	-1.3%
128th	South Africa	34.2	-0.8%
129th	Morocco	34.8	-3.4%
130th	Tonga	34.9	-1.3%
131st	India	35.4	-1.4%
132nd	El Salvador	35.7	-2.5%
133rd	Samoa	36.2	0.2%
134th	Uzbekistan	36.7	0.8%
135th	Philippines	36.7	-0.8%
136th	Paraguay	36.8	-0.6%
137th	Tuvalu	37.5	0.1%
138th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	37.6	-1.4%
139th	Papua New Guinea	37.7	-0.1%
140th	Lesotho	37.9	-1.3%
141st	Belize	38.1	-2.1%
142nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	38.1	-1.4%
143rd	Algeria	38.1	-2.7%
144th	Namibia	38.3	0.1%
145th	Turkmenistan	38.4	1.6%
146th	Mongolia	38.5	-0.4%
147th	Micronesia, Federated States of	38.8	-1.7%
148th	Gabon	38.9	-0.3%
149th	Kiribati	38.9	0.8%
150th	Haiti	39.0	-0.1%
151st	Botswana	39.4	-2.0%
152nd	Nepal	39.4	-0.8%
153rd	Iraq	39.5	-0.1%
154th	Congo, Republic of	39.8	-0.7%
155th	Djibouti	40.0	-1.5%
156th	Nicaragua	40.6	-1.8%
157th	Solomon Islands	40.6	-1.0%
158th	Bangladesh	40.7	-2.5%
159th	Jordan	40.9	-1.1%
160th	Vanuatu	41.0	-0.4%
161st	São Tomé and Principe	41.0	-0.2%
162nd	Guatemala	41.1	-1.8%
163rd	Honduras	41.1	-1.5%
164th	Syrian Arab Republic	41.3	-0.6%
165th	Tajikistan	41.6	0.8%
166th	Bhutan	41.6	-1.5%
167th	Cabo Verde	42.1	0.1%
168th	Zimbabwe	42.3	-3.2%
169th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	42.4	-3.5%
170th	Mauritania	42.8	-1.0%
171st	Ghana	43.1	-0.7%
172nd	Lao PDR	43.5	-0.3%
173rd	Togo	43.6	-1.0%
174th	Timor-Leste	44.2	-0.8%
175th	Saudi Arabia	44.2	-1.8%
176th	Pakistan	44.3	-0.6%
177th	Cameroon	44.6	-0.1%
178th	Sudan	44.7	-0.9%
179th	Madagascar	44.8	-0.8%
180th	Eritrea	44.8	-0.1%
181st	Senegal	45.4	-1.6%
182nd	Tanzania	45.7	-1.5%
183rd	Equatorial Guinea	45.8	2.8%
184th	Nigeria	45.9	-1.4%
185th	Guinea	46.1	0.2%
186th	Comoros	46.4	-0.6%
187th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	46.5	0.7%
188th	Sierra Leone	46.7	-0.2%
189th	Kenya	46.9	-0.6%
190th	Eswatini	46.9	-2.0%
191st	Maldives	46.9	-0.4%
192nd	Central African Republic	47.2	0.6%
193rd	Benin	47.3	-0.5%
194th	Zambia	47.4	0.3%
195th	Liberia	47.6	-0.3%
196th	Guinea-Bissau	48.1	-0.7%
197th	Côte d'Ivoire	48.1	-0.6%
198th	Marshall Islands	48.2	-1.5%
199th	Oman	48.3	-2.7%
200th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	48.7	0.4%
201st	Mali	48.8	-0.5%
202nd	Burkina Faso	48.9	0.0%
203rd	Gambia, The	49.0	-0.6%
204th	Burundi	49.1	-0.5%
205th	Chad	49.2	-3.9%
206th	Mozambique	49.7	-0.9%
207th	Uganda	49.7	1.4%
208th	Rwanda	50.2	-1.8%
209th	Malawi	50.4	-0.8%
210th	Angola	50.6	0.5%
211th	South Sudan	50.7	-0.3%
212th	Cambodia	50.9	-1.1%
213th	Afghanistan	51.7	2.7%
214th	Yemen, Republic of	53.6	-0.6%
215th	Niger	56.4	-0.2%

FAQ

What was United States's birth rate in 1985?▾

United States's birth rate in 1985 was 15.8. This ranked 39th globally.

How did United States's birth rate change in 1985?▾

United States's birth rate increased by 1.3% in 1985 compared to 1984.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 1985?▾

Niger had the highest birth rate in 1985 at 56.4.

What is the birth rate of United States in 1985?▾

The birth rate of United States in 1985 was 15.8. This ranked 39th globally.

How does 1985 compare to 1984 for United States's birth rate?▾

United States's birth rate went from 15.6 in 1984 to 15.8 in 1985, a 1.3% increase.

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