Nacimientos y Crecimiento de la Población en Costa Rica
Crecimiento de la Población en Costa Rica
Data Source: The World Bank World Development Indicators. Accessed 28 September 2022
Estonia Ranking Compared to All Countries
Estonia ranks 175 compared to all countries in Population Growth for the year 2021.
Data Source: The World Bank World Development Indicators.
What Is It?
Population growth is the increase in the number of people within a population during a set period of time
How Is It Calculated?
Population growth is calculated by taking the prior year’s population and adding the number of live births and inward migrations and subtracting of deaths and outward migrations.
What Does It Mean?
Population growth is an indicator of a country’s standards of living, as well as its fertility rate. It also can provide insight into sex education, use of birth control, and immigration/emigration trends.
The source of the population growth has different policy and planning implications:
Population growth that results from an increasing fertility rate will create, among other things, a greater need for educational infrastructure and a future demand for increased employment opportunities.
Population growth that results from immigration will create immediate demand for increased housing and greater employment opportunities.
Regardless of the cause of expansion, a country’s healthcare infrastructure will need to expand along with the country’s population.
Nacimientos en Costa Rica
Birth Rate
Data Source: The World Bank World Development Indicators.
Estonia ranks 156 compared to all countries in Birth Rate per 1,000 people for the year 2020.
Data Source: The World Bank World Development Indicators.
What Is It?
A country’s birth rate refers to the number of live births per one thousand people, calculated over a one year period. It is often called the «crude birth rate,» as it applies to the entire population, rather than to a subset such as women of childbearing age.
How Is It Calculated?
Birth rate is calculated by taking the number of live births in a year, dividing it by the total midyear population, and then multiplying the resulting number by 1,000 to arrive at the number of births per 1,000 people.
What Does It Mean?
The birth rate is one of the most basic and important measures in demography by illustrating the ratio between live births and overall population. It reflects fertility rates and provides insight into population growth.
Birth rate also affects public policy and budgeting for education and health systems. It can impact the economy by altering the demographics of consumer markets, affecting the demand for housing, population in the workforce, and more.
Countries need to have a birth rate of at least 2.1 children per woman to sustain the population. Developed countries typically have a lower birth rate than developing countries:
A declining birth rate suggests factors such as growing urbanization, increasing prosperity, increasing educational opportunities for women, growing female participation in the labor force, and improved access to contraception. Birth rates are declining globally, trending towards a lower-than-replacement rate. This has potential to create a situation in which there are not enough young people to support the economy and to care for an aging population. Governments must reevaluate their immigration, employment, and economic development policies to plan for challenges associated with demographic change.
A rising birth rate is atypical globally but indicates an inversion of the factors above—namely, decreasing urbanization, reduced prosperity, fewer educational and employment opportunities for women, and reduced access to contraception. It also indicates an increase in religiosity, as procreation tends to be positively correlated with religious faith, as well as an increase in maternal and early childhood support.