A   2-12  Crude Birth Rate and Crude Death Rate
Source: World Bank WDI Database.						(‰)
Country or Area	Crude Birth Rate			Crude Death Rate
	2000	2007	2008	2000	2007	2008
World	21.5	20.1	20.0	8.6	8.3	8.3
China	14.0	12.1	12.1	6.5	6.9	7.1
Hong Kong,China	8.1	10.2	11.3	5.1	5.7	5.9
Macao,China	8.7	8.0	8.2	4.5	4.5	4.5
Bangladesh	27.1	22.0	21.4	8.3	6.7	6.6
Brunei Darussalam	23.3	20.1	19.8	2.8	2.8	2.8
Cambodia	28.3	24.7	24.7	9.9	8.5	8.3
India	25.8	23.1	22.8	8.5	7.4	7.4
Indonesia	21.3	19.0	18.6	6.9	6.3	6.3
Iran	19.7	19.1	18.9	5.8	5.8	5.7
Israel	21.7	21.1	21.5	6.0	5.5	5.3
Japan	9.4	8.6	8.7	7.7	8.7	9.1
Kazakhstan	14.7	20.8	22.7	10.1	10.2	9.7
Korea,Rep.	13.4	10.0	9.4	5.2	5.0	5.0
Laos	32.6	27.4	27.3	8.8	7.2	7.0
Malaysia	23.5	20.7	20.4	4.6	4.5	4.5
Mongolia	19.5	18.7	18.8	6.9	6.7	6.6
Myanmar	21.7	20.8	20.5	10.0	9.9	9.8
Pakistan	32.7	30.4	30.1	8.0	7.0	6.9
Philippines	27.5	25.0	24.7	5.2	4.8	4.8
Singapore	11.8	10.0	10.2	3.9	4.5	4.4
Sri Lanka	18.4	19.0	18.8	6.1	5.8	5.8
Thailand	15.8	14.6	14.5	8.1	8.9	9.0
Viet Nam	19.8	17.5	17.2	5.4	5.4	5.4
Egypt	26.2	24.9	24.7	6.1	5.9	5.9
Nigeria	42.6	40.3	39.8	18.1	16.6	16.4
South Africa	24.7	22.4	22.0	11.7	15.1	15.2
Canada	10.9	11.1	11.3	7.1	7.2	7.3
Mexico	23.8	18.6	18.3	4.7	4.8	4.9
United States	14.7	14.3	14.3	8.7	8.2	8.1
Argentina	18.6	17.4	17.3	7.9	7.8	7.8
Brazil	20.9	16.8	16.2	6.4	6.4	6.4
Venezuela	23.4	21.5	21.2	4.9	5.1	5.1
Czech Rep.	8.8	11.1	11.5	10.6	10.1	10.1
France	13.2	12.7	12.9	9.1	8.4	8.6
Germany	9.3	8.3	8.3	10.2	10.1	10.3
Italy	9.3	9.5	9.6	9.7	9.7	9.7
Netherlands	13.0	11.1	11.2	8.8	8.1	8.2
Poland	9.8	10.2	10.9	9.5	9.9	10.0
Russian Fed.	8.7	11.3	12.1	15.4	14.6	14.6
Spain	9.9	11.0	11.4	9.0	8.6	8.5
Turkey	21.1	18.5	18.2	5.9	5.9	6.0
Ukraine	7.8	10.2	11.0	15.3	16.4	16.3
United Kingdom	11.4	12.7	12.9	10.2	9.4	9.4
Australia	13.0	13.5	13.8	6.7	6.5	6.7
New Zealand	14.9	15.1	15.1	6.9	6.7	6.8