Europe
United Kingdom
Ireland
France
Sweden
Switzerland
Northern America
Canada
United States
Africa
Mauritius
Asia
Israel
Japan
Singapore
WORLD
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Crude Birth
Crude Death
Rate
Rate
(18.0)
(10,0)
17.8
11.7
21.6
12.1
17.4
10.6
15.8
10.0
18.3
9.3
(19.0)
(9.0)
19.4
7.5
18.5
9.5
(45.0)
(22.0)
35.3
8.8
(39.0)
(17.0)
25.4
6.7
13.7
6.8
30.0
5.5
(34.0)
(14.0)
Births Registered
(The rates in brackets are estimates).
160. The number of births registered in 1967 was 88,171, comprising 86,551 Chinese (44,826 male, 41,724 female and 1 hermaphrodite), and 1,620 non-Chinese (819 male and 801 female). Table XXXIV gives (a) the number of births registered during the years 1958 to 1967 by sex and race with the percentages of males and females, and of Chinese and non-Chinese, and (b) the live birth rates per thousand of population for the same years. The total number of births registered in 1967 decreased by 4,305 from 92,476 in 1966 and was in fact the lowest total since 1954, when the total was 83,317 and the birth rate 36.6. As will be seen from the Table, 1967 was the second year since 1957 in which the total was below 100,000. The Table also shows that the birth rate has fallen continuously in each of the seven years since 1960, when the rate was 37.1. The highest rate recorded was 39.7 in 1956. As compared with 1966 the year's birth rate of 23.0 per thousand of population was down 1.8.
161. There is a distinct quarterly pattern of births in Hong Kong as illustrated in Table XXXV, which shows in graphical form that the peak of births is always reached in the last quarter of the year. Births then decline sharply in the next two quarters touching the lowest
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