Birth and Death Rates by Country

	2007
Country	Birth rate per 1,000 population	Death rate per 1,000 population

Afghanistan	46.2	20.0
Albania	15.2	5.3
Algeria	17.1	4.6
American Samoa	21.8	3.2
Andorra	8.4	6.5
Angola	44.5	24.8
Anguilla	14.0	5.3
Antigua and Barbuda	16.6	5.3
Argentina	16.5	7.5
Armenia	12.3	8.3
Aruba	12.8	7.6
Australia	12.0	7.6
Austria	8.7	9.8
Azerbaijan	17.5	8.3
The Bahamas	17.3	9.1
Bahrain	17.5	4.2
Bangladesh	29.4	8.1
Barbados	12.6	8.6
Belarus	9.5	14.0
Belgium	10.3	10.3
Belize	28.3	5.8
Benin	38.1	11.9
Bermuda	11.3	7.8
Bhutan	33.3	12.5
Bolivia	22.8	7.4
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.8	8.4
Botswana	23.2	13.6
Brazil	16.3	6.2
Brunei	18.6	3.3
Bulgaria	9.6	14.3
Burkina Faso	45.3	15.3
Burma	17.5	9.3
Burundi	42.0	13.2
Cambodia	25.5	8.2
Cameroon	35.1	12.7
Canada	10.8	7.9
Cape Verde	24.4	6.5
Cayman Islands	12.6	5.0
Central African Republic	33.5	18.5
Chad	42.4	16.7
Chile	15.0	5.9
China	13.4	7.0
Colombia	20.2	5.5
Comoros	36.4	8.0
Congo (ROC)	42.2	12.6
Congo (DRC)	43.0	10.3
Cook Islands	N/A	N/A
Costa Rica	18.0	4.4
Cote d'Ivoire	34.7	14.7
Croatia	9.6	11.6
Cuba	11.4	7.1
Cyprus	12.6	7.7
Czech Republic	9.0	10.6
Denmark	10.9	10.3
Djibouti	39.1	19.2
Dominica	15.7	8.4
Dominican Republic	22.9	5.3
East Timor	26.8	6.2
Ecuador	21.9	4.2
Egypt	22.5	5.1
El Salvador	26.1	5.6
Equatorial Guinea	35.2	15.0
Eritrea	34.0	9.4
Estonia	10.2	13.3
Ethiopia	37.4	14.7
Faroe Islands	14.1	8.7
Fiji	22.4	5.7
Finland	10.4	9.9
France	12.9	8.4
French Polynesia	16.4	4.6
Gabon	36.0	12.4
The Gambia	38.9	12.0
Gaza Strip	38.9	3.7
Georgia	10.5	9.4
Germany	8.2	10.7
Ghana	29.9	9.6
Gibraltar	10.7	9.4
Greece	9.6	10.3
Greenland	16.0	7.9
Grenada	21.9	6.6
Guam	18.6	4.6
Guatemala	29.1	5.3
Guernsey	8.7	10.1
Guinea	41.5	15.3
Guinea-Bissau	36.8	16.3
Guyana	18.1	8.3
Haiti	35.9	10.4
Honduras	27.6	5.3
Hong Kong (China)	7.3	6.5
Hungary	9.7	13.1
Iceland	13.6	6.8
India	22.7	6.6
Indonesia	19.6	6.2
Iran	16.6	5.7
Iraq	31.4	5.3
Ireland	14.4	7.8
Israel	17.7	6.2
Italy	8.5	10.5
Jamaica	20.4	6.6
Japan	8.1	9.0
Jersey	9.0	9.3
Jordan	20.7	2.7
Kazakhstan	16.2	9.4
Kenya	38.9	10.9
Kiribati	30.5	8.1
Korea, North	15.1	7.2
Korea, South	9.9	6.0
Kuwait	21.9	2.4
Kyrgyzstan	23.1	7.0
Laos	35.0	11.3
Latvia	9.4	13.6
Lebanon	18.1	6.1
Lesotho	24.7	22.5
Liberia	43.8	22.2
Libya	26.1	3.5
Liechtenstein	10.0	7.3
Lithuania	8.9	11.1
Luxembourg	11.8	8.4
Macau (China)	8.6	4.6
Macedonia, F.Y.R.O.	12.0	8.8
Madagascar	38.6	8.5
Malawi	42.1	18.2
Malaysia	22.6	5.0
Maldives	34.2	6.9
Mali	49.6	16.5
Malta	10.3	8.2
Man, Isle of	11.0	11.1
Marshall Islands	32.4	4.7
Mauritania	40.6	11.9
Mauritius	15.3	6.9
Mayotte	40.4	7.5
Mexico	20.4	4.8
Micronesia, Federated States of	24.1	4.7
Moldova	10.9	10.8
Monaco	9.1	12.9
Mongolia	21.1	6.2
Montenegro	11.2	8.4
Montserrat	17.5	7.0
Morocco	21.6	5.5
Mozambique	38.5	20.5
Namibia	23.5	19.1
Nauru	24.5	6.7
Nepal	30.5	9.1
The Netherlands	10.7	8.7
The Netherlands Antilles	14.6	6.4
New Caledonia	17.8	5.7
New Zealand	13.6	7.5
Nicaragua	24.1	4.4
Niger	50.2	20.6
Nigeria	40.2	16.7
Northern Mariana Islands	19.3	2.3
Norway	11.3	9.4
Oman	35.8	3.8
Pakistan	27.5	8.0
Palau	17.7	6.8
Panama	21.4	5.4
Papua New Guinea	28.8	7.1
Paraguay	28.8	4.5
Peru	20.1	6.2
Philippines	24.5	5.4
Poland	9.9	9.9
Portugal	10.6	10.6
Puerto Rico	12.8	7.8
Qatar	15.6	4.8
Romania	10.7	11.8
Russia	10.9	16.0
Rwanda	40.2	14.9
Saint Helena	11.9	6.6
Saint Kitts and Nevis	17.9	8.2
Saint Lucia	19.3	5.0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	13.1	6.8
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	16.0	6.0
Samoa	28.3	5.9
San Marino	9.9	8.3
Sao Tome and Principe	39.7	6.3
Saudi Arabia	29.1	2.5
Senegal	37.4	11.0
Serbia	12.1	10.7
Seychelles	15.8	6.2
Sierra Leone	45.4	22.6
Singapore	9.2	4.4
Slovakia	10.7	9.5
Slovenia	9.0	10.4
Solomon Islands	29.3	3.9
Somalia	44.6	16.3
South Africa	17.9	22.4
Spain	10.0	9.8
Sri Lanka	17.0	6.0
Sudan	34.9	14.4
Suriname	17.3	5.5
Swaziland	27.0	30.4
Sweden	10.2	10.3
Switzerland	9.7	8.5
Syria	27.2	4.7
Taiwan	9.0	6.5
Tajikistan	27.3	7.0
Tanzania	36.0	13.4
Thailand	13.7	7.1
Togo	36.8	9.7
Tonga	23.7	5.2
Trinidad and Tobago	13.1	10.8
Tunisia	15.5	5.2
Turkey	16.4	6.0
Turkmenistan	25.4	6.2
Turks and Caicos Islands	21.5	4.2
Tuvalu	22.4	7.0
Uganda	48.1	12.6
Ukraine	9.4	16.1
United Arab Emirates	16.1	2.2
United Kingdom	10.7	10.1
United States	14.2	8.3
Uruguay	14.4	9.2
Uzbekistan	26.5	7.7
Vanuatu	22.4	7.8
Venezuela	21.2	5.1
Vietnam	16.6	6.2
Virgin Islands	13.7	6.6
Virgin Islands, British	14.8	4.4
Wallis and Futuna	N/A	N/A
West Bank	31.0	3.9
Western Sahara	40.4	12.0
Yemen	42.7	8.1
Zambia	40.8	21.5
Zimbabwe	27.7	21.8
N/A=Not Available

Source: United States Census International Programs Center.

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