Crude birth rate in Euro area
The crude birth rate in the euro area was 8.0 per 1,000 people in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1960.
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2024
8.0
Change from 2023
−0.2per 1,000 people
World, 2024
16.3 per 1,000 people
Crude birth rate in Euro area over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
Births per 1,000 people. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Euro area | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.0 per 1,000 people | 16.3 per 1,000 people |
| 2023 | 8.1 per 1,000 people | 16.3 per 1,000 people |
| 2022 | 8.6 per 1,000 people | 16.6 per 1,000 people |
| 2021 | 9.0 per 1,000 people | 16.8 per 1,000 people |
| 2020 | 8.9 per 1,000 people | 17.1 per 1,000 people |
| 2019 | 9.1 per 1,000 people | 17.8 per 1,000 people |
| 2018 | 9.3 per 1,000 people | 18.2 per 1,000 people |
| 2017 | 9.5 per 1,000 people | 18.8 per 1,000 people |
| 2016 | 9.7 per 1,000 people | 19.3 per 1,000 people |
| 2015 | 9.7 per 1,000 people | 19.3 per 1,000 people |
| 2014 | 9.8 per 1,000 people | 19.8 per 1,000 people |
| 2013 | 9.7 per 1,000 people | 19.9 per 1,000 people |
| 2012 | 10.0 per 1,000 people | 20.4 per 1,000 people |
| 2011 | 10.1 per 1,000 people | 20.3 per 1,000 people |
| 2010 | 10.3 per 1,000 people | 20.2 per 1,000 people |
| 2009 | 10.4 per 1,000 people | 20.4 per 1,000 people |
| 2008 | 10.5 per 1,000 people | 20.5 per 1,000 people |
| 2007 | 10.3 per 1,000 people | 20.6 per 1,000 people |
| 2006 | 10.4 per 1,000 people | 20.6 per 1,000 people |
| 2005 | 10.3 per 1,000 people | 20.8 per 1,000 people |
| 2004 | 10.4 per 1,000 people | 21.0 per 1,000 people |
| 2003 | 10.3 per 1,000 people | 21.1 per 1,000 people |
| 2002 | 10.3 per 1,000 people | 21.4 per 1,000 people |
| 2001 | 10.3 per 1,000 people | 21.7 per 1,000 people |
| 2000 | 10.6 per 1,000 people | 22.1 per 1,000 people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −0.2 from 8.1 per 1,000 people in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 9.8 per 1,000 people, the figure has changed by −1.8.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 16.3 per 1,000 people.
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Fertility rate
1.35 births per woman
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Population
358,664,361 people
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Population growth
0.30%
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Population aged 65 and over
22.9%
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Population aged 0 to 14
14.0%
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Crude death rate
10.6 per 1,000 people
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