Crude birth rate of New Zealand 1850-2020

In New Zealand, the crude birth rate in 1850 was 37 live births per thousand people, meaning that 3.7 percent of the population had been born in that year. This rate fluctuates over the next thirty years, reaching it's highest recorded number in 1870 (42.3 births per thousand), before dropping consistently from 1880 until 1935. In 1935, New Zealand's crude birth rate was just 17.4 births per thousand people, however New Zealand then experienced a relatively large baby boom after the Second World War, and did not fall to it's pre-war level again until the late 1970s. From the 1980s onwards, New Zealand's crude birth rate has remained around the mid-teens, although it is expected to fall to a record-low of 12.6 births per thousand in 2020.