Crude birth rate of Kenya 1930-2020

In 1930, the crude birth rate in Kenya was 47.9 births per thousand people, meaning that approximately 4.8% of the population was born in that given year. The birth rate would continue to increase for several decades, peaking at 51.3 births per thousand people in 1960. Following this, the crude birth rate would remain somewhat stable in Kenya until the late-1970s, when strong national and international promotion of family planning services and an increased use of contraceptives would lead to a sharp decrease in the birth rate. The crude birth rate would see a rapid decrease over the next two decades, falling from 51 births in 1975 to just over 40 births in 1995.

However, the birth rate would see a brief increase from 1995 to 2000, an increase attributed in part to a prioritizing of government healthcare resources away from contraceptives and family planning towards combatting the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic. Resources for contraceptives and family planning from the Kenyan government would begin to return around 2003, and as a result, the crude birth rate began to fall again. In 2020, the crude birth rate in Kenya is estimated to be 28.9 births per thousand people.