Dataset
Annual birth rate and peak birth month
owid.birth-rate-colored-by-peak-birth-month
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About
Total number of births per 1,000 people in a given year. Number corresponding to the month with the highest daily birth rate.
Cite as: Human Mortality Database (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. “Birth rate, total – HMD” [dataset]. Human Mortality Database, “Human Mortality Database” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1751–2024
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-10-22
- Units
- births per 1,000 people
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/birth-rate-colored-by-peak-birth-month
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| birth_rate__sex_total | number | Birth rate, total (births per 1,000 people) |
| month_max | number | Month with peak value |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |