Total live births by sex

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Source: UNECE Statistical Database, compiled from national and international (Eurostat, UN Statistics Division Demographic Yearbook, WHO European health for all database and UNICEF TransMONEE) official sources.

Definition: A live birth is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which after such separation breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached.

General note: Data come from registers, unless otherwise specified. In years 2003 and before, the number of live births for girl child and boy child may not add up to the number for both sexes (Total) due to the rounding up of numbers.

Country: Armenia

1980-2006 : Data do not cover infants born alive with less than 28 weeks gestation, less than 1000 grams in weight and 35 centimeters in length, who die within seven days of birth.

Country: Azerbaijan

Data do not cover infants born alive with less than 28 weeks gestation, less than 1000 grams in weight and 35 centimeters in length, who die within seven days of birth.
Data are tabulated by date of registration (rather than occurrence).

Country: Belarus

Data do not cover infants born alive with less than 28 weeks gestation, less than 1000 grams in weight and 35 centimeters in length, who die within seven days of birth.

Country: Canada

1980,1995: Including Canadian residents temporarily in the United States, but excluding United States residents temporarily in Canada.

Country: Cyprus

Data cover only government controlled area.

Country: Georgia

Data do not cover infants born alive with less than 28 weeks gestation, less than 1000 grams in weight and 35 centimeters in length, who die within seven days of birth.
From 1995 : data do not cover Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Tshinvali).

Country: Germany

From 3 October 1990: data refer to the Federal Republic within its frontiers.

Country: Israel

Data include East Jerusalem and Israeli residents in certain other territories under occupation by Israeli military forces since June 1967.

Country: Kazakhstan

Data do not cover infants born alive with less than 28 weeks gestation, less than 1000 grams in weight and 35 centimeters in length, who die within seven days of birth.

Country: Malta

From 2001: data include foreign residents.

Country: Russian Federation

Data do not cover infants born alive with less than 28 weeks gestation, less than 1000 grams in weight and 35 centimeters in length, who die within seven days of birth.

Country: Serbia

Data do not cover Kosovo and Metohija.
Data are tabulated by date of registration (rather than occurrence).

Country: Turkiye

1980-2000: data source is population censuses. From 2001: data are from administrative source.

Country: Turkmenistan

Data do not cover infants born alive with less than 28 weeks gestation, less than 1000 grams in weight and 35 centimeters in length, who die within seven days of birth.

Measurement: Total Live Births , Country: United States

- Data Source (2016 - onwards): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System, Natality on CDC WONDER Online Database. Data are from the Natality Records 2007-2023, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed at CDC WONDER Online Database on 23 September 2024.
- Reference period (2000): Data refer to 1999.