App. 2-13  Crude Birth Rate, Crude Death Rate and Natural Growth Rate
Source:World Bank Database.           (‰)
Country or Area Crude Birth Rate Crude Death Rate Natural Growth Rate
2000 2005 2000 2005 2000 2005
             
 World 21.5 20.2 8.9 8.6 12.6 11.6
 China 14.0 12.2 6.5 6.5 7.6 5.7
  (14.0) (12.4) (6.5) (6.5) (7.6) (5.9)
 Hong Kong, China 8.1 8.2 5.1 5.6 3.0 2.6
 Macao, China 8.7 7.3 4.3 4.6 4.4 2.7
 Bangladesh 28.5 26.2 8.4 7.5 20.1 18.7
 Brunei Darussalam 24.2 21.8 2.8 2.8 21.4 19.0
 Cambodia 31.4 30.3 11.0 10.4 20.4 19.9
 India 25.8 23.8 8.5 7.6 17.3 16.2
 Indonesia 21.3 19.9 7.5 7.3 13.8 12.6
 Iran 19.0 14.5 5.4 4.4 13.6 10.1
 Israel 21.7 20.8 6.0 5.6 15.7 15.2
 Japan 9.4 8.4 7.7 8.5 1.7 -0.1
 Kazakhstan 14.7 18.2 10.1 10.1 4.6 8.1
 Korea, Dem. 17.4 15.2 10.5 10.7 6.9 4.5
 Korea, Rep. 13.4 9.0 5.2 5.0 8.2 4.0
 Malaysia 23.9 21.4 4.7 4.7 19.2 16.7
 Mongolia 21.6 17.7 6.4 6.0 15.3 11.7
 Myanmar 22.1 19.2 10.0 9.5 12.1 9.8
 Pakistan 29.1 26.1 7.8 6.8 21.3 19.3
 Philippines 26.8 24.2 5.2 4.9 21.6 19.2
 Singapore 11.8 10.0 3.9 4.3 7.9 5.7
 Sri Lanka 18.4 18.3 6.1 5.8 12.3 12.4
 Thailand 16.7 15.6 7.0 7.2 9.7 8.4
 Viet Nam 19.4 17.8 5.8 6.0 13.6 11.8
 Egypt 26.6 25.6 6.2 5.8 20.4 19.8
 South Africa 25.8 23.5 16.0 21.4 9.9 2.1
 Canada 10.9 10.5 7.1 7.3 3.8 3.2
 Mexico 21.1 18.4 4.5 4.5 16.6 13.9
 United States  14.7 14.0 8.7 8.3 6.0 5.8
 Argentina 18.7 17.7 7.7 7.7 11.0 10.0
 Brazil 21.0 19.8 6.6 6.5 14.5 13.3
 Venezuela 23.4 22.0 4.9 5.1 18.5 17.0
 Belarus 9.4 9.5 13.5 14.7 -4.1 -5.2
 Czech Republic 8.8 10.0 10.6 10.5 -1.8 -0.6
 France 13.2 12.6 9.1 8.8 4.1 3.8
 Germany 9.3 8.4 10.2 10.1 -0.9 -1.7
 Italy 9.3 9.5 9.7 9.7 -0.4 -0.2
 Netherlands 13.0 11.6 8.8 8.4 4.2 3.2
 Poland 9.8 9.4 9.5 9.7 0.3 -0.3
 Russian Fed. 8.7 10.2 15.4 16.1 -6.7 -5.9
 Spain 9.9 10.7 9.0 8.9 0.9 1.8
 Turkey 22.2 18.9 7.1 6.2 15.1 12.7
 Ukraine 7.8 9.0 15.3 16.6 -7.5 -7.6
 United Kingdom 11.4 11.9 10.2 9.9 1.2 2.0
 Australia 13.0 12.5 6.7 6.5 6.3 6.0
 New Zealand 14.9 14.1 6.9 6.6 8.0 7.5