Crude birth rate of Portugal 1850-2020

In Portugal, the crude birth rate in 1850 was 32.3 live births per thousand people, meaning that approximately 3.2 percent of the population had been born in that year. From this point until 1930, the crude rate stayed between 30 and 34, and it then grew to its highest recorded figure of 34 in 1915, before it then began to drop gradually over the last hundred years. There was a brief period, between 1940 and 1965, where the crude birth rate plateaued between 25.5 and 23.8 births per thousand. From 1965 until the end of the century the rate continued to drop, although it did slow considerably around 11 births per thousand in the 1990s, however it is expected to continue to drop into the future, and reach 7.8 in 2020.