Crude birth rate

The crude birth rate relates the number of births during the year to the average population in that year. The value is expressed per 1000 inhabitants.

Additional information on Eurostat web page

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
EU (27 countries)	10.6	10.4	10.3	10.3	10.4	10.4	10.6	10.6	10.9	10.7 ^(p)	10.7 ^(bp)	10.4 ^(bp)
Euro area (17 countries)	10.7	10.4	10.4	10.3	10.4	10.3	10.4	10.4	10.5	10.3 ^(p)	10.3 ^(bp)	10.1 ^(bp)
Euro area (16 countries)	10.7	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.3	10.4	10.4	10.5	10.3 ^(p)	10.3 ^(bp)	10.1 ^(bp)
Belgium	11.4	11.2	10.9	11.0	11.3	11.4	11.6	11.7	11.9	11.8	11.9	11.9 ^(bp)
Bulgaria	9.0	8.5	8.5	8.6	9.0	9.2	9.6	9.8	10.2	10.7	10.0	9.6 ^(b)
Czech Republic	8.8	8.9	9.1	9.2	9.6	10.0	10.3	11.1	11.5	11.3	11.1	10.4 ^(bp)
Denmark	12.6	12.2	11.9	12.0	12.0	11.9	12.0	11.7	11.8	11.4	11.4	10.6
Germany	9.3	8.9	8.7	8.6	8.6	8.3	8.2	8.3	8.3	8.1	8.3	8.1 ^(p)
Estonia	9.5	9.3	9.6	9.6	10.4	10.7	11.1	11.8	12.0	11.8	11.8	11.0
Ireland	14.4	15.0	15.4	15.4	15.2	14.8	15.4	16.2	16.7	16.7	16.5 ^(p)	16.3 ^(bp)
Greece	9.5	9.3	9.4	9.5	9.6	9.7	10.0	10.0	10.5	10.5	10.1	9.4 ^(p)
Spain	9.9	10.0	10.1	10.5	10.6	10.7	10.9	10.9	11.4	10.8	10.5	10.2 ^(p)
France	13.3	13.1	12.9	12.8	12.8	12.8	13.1	12.8	12.9 ^(p)	12.8 ^(p)	12.9 ^(p)	12.7 ^(p)
Italy	9.5	9.4	9.4	9.4	9.7	9.5	9.5	9.5	9.6	9.5	9.3	9.0 ^(p)
Cyprus	12.2	11.6	11.1	11.2	11.2	10.9	11.3	10.9	11.6	12.0	11.8 ^(b)	11.3
Latvia	8.5	8.3	8.6	9.0	8.8	9.3	9.7	10.2	10.6	9.6	8.6	9.1 ^(bp)
Lithuania	9.8	9.1	8.7	8.9	8.9	8.9	9.2	9.6	10.4	11.0	10.8	11.3 ^(b)
Luxembourg	13.1	12.4	12.0	11.7	11.9	11.5	11.7	11.4	11.5	11.3	11.6	10.9 ^(p)
Hungary	9.6	9.5	9.5	9.3	9.4	9.7	9.9	9.7	9.9	9.6	9.0	8.8 ^(p)
Malta	11.5	10.1 ^(b)	9.9	10.2	9.7	9.6	9.6	9.5	10.0	10.0	9.6	10.3 ^(bp)
Netherlands	13.0	12.6	12.5	12.3	11.9	11.5	11.3	11.1	11.2	11.2	11.1	10.8
Austria	9.8	9.4	9.7	9.5	9.7	9.5	9.4	9.2	9.3	9.1	9.4	9.3
Poland	9.9 ^(b)	9.6	9.3	9.2	9.3	9.5	9.8	10.2	10.9	10.9	10.8	10.1 ^(bp)
Portugal	11.7	11.0	11.0	10.8	10.4	10.4	10.0	9.7	9.8	9.4	9.5	9.2 ^(bp)
Romania	10.4	10.0	9.7	9.8	10.0	10.2	10.2	10.0	10.3	10.4	9.9 ^(p)	9.2 ^(p)
Slovenia	9.1	8.8	8.8	8.7	9.0	9.1	9.4	9.8	10.8 ^(b)	10.7	10.9	10.7 ^(p)
Slovakia	10.2	9.5	9.5	9.6	10.0	10.1	10.0	10.1	10.6	11.3	11.1	11.3 ^(b)
Finland	11.0	10.8	10.7	10.9	11.0	11.0	11.2	11.1	11.2	11.3	11.4	11.1
Sweden	10.2	10.3	10.7	11.1	11.2	11.2	11.7	11.7	11.9	12.0	12.3	11.8
United Kingdom	11.5	11.3	11.3	11.7	12.0	12.0	12.4	12.7	12.9	12.8	13.0 ^(p)	12.9 ^(p)
Iceland	15.3	14.4	14.1	14.3	14.5	14.4	14.5	14.6	15.2	15.8	15.4	14.1
Liechtenstein	12.9	12.1	11.7	10.2	10.8	11.0	10.3	10.0	9.9	11.4	9.1	10.9 ^(p)
Norway	13.2	12.6	12.2	12.4	12.4	12.3	12.6	12.4	12.7	12.8	12.6	12.2
Switzerland	10.9	10.0	9.9	9.8	9.9	9.8	9.8	9.9	10.0	10.1	10.3	10.2 ^(bp)
Montenegro	15.0	14.4	13.7	13.5	12.6	11.8	12.1	12.5	13.1	13.7	12.0 ^(b)	..
Croatia	9.8	9.2	9.0	8.9	9.1	9.6	9.3	9.4	9.9	10.1	9.8	9.4
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	14.5	13.3	13.7	13.3	11.5	11.0	11.1	11.1	11.2	11.5	11.8	11.1 ^(p)
Turkey	20.2	19.9	19.7	19.4	19.1	18.9	18.7 ^(p)	18.1 ^(b)	17.8	17.4	16.9	17.2 ^(p)

(..) - not available
(p) - provisional
(b) - break in time series

Source: Eurostat