Crude birth rate of Netherlands 1830-2020

In the Netherlands, the crude birth rate in 1850 was 36 live births per thousand people, meaning that 3.6 percent of the population had been born in that year. From 1830 until the end of the century, the crude birth rate fluctuated between 32 and 36 births per thousand people. In 1880, a downward trend appeared, which lasted until 1940 (although it did increase once, directly after the First World War). From the Second World War until the 1970s, the Netherlands experienced a baby boom, where the birth rate deviated from it's previous trajectory, and remained above twenty for almost three decades. In the 1970s the crude birth rate dropped rather sharply, from 19.2 in 1970 to 12.7 in 1980. For the next 25 years the Netherlands' crude birth rate then plateaued between twelve and thirteen, although it has recently dropped, and is expected to fall to just over ten births per thousand in 2020.