Birth and death rates

Births and deaths in a year per 1,000 people.

The crude birth rate is the number of births in a year per 1,000 people, and the crude death rate the number of deaths. The difference between them is a population's natural growth, before migration. They are called crude because they take no account of age: an old population has a high death rate even when people live long. The UN Population Division estimates them in its World Population Prospects, and the World Bank republishes them.

• Demography
• Births
• Deaths
• Population
• Country
• Year