United Kingdom Ireland
Italy
Sweden
Mauritius
Israel
Japan
Singapore...
United States
...
Crude
Crude
Year
Birth
Death
Infant Mortality
Rate
Rate
Rate
1962
18.3
11.9
22.1
21.8
11.9
...
24.2
*
18.9
9.9
40.5
+1
14.2
10.1
15.3
"
1961
39.8
9.9
62.0
...
1962
25.4
+
6.0
31.4
17.0
7.5
28.6 (1961)
34.1
5.9
31.2
19
22.4
9.5
25.4
...
""
According to the Population Reference Bureau Inc.'s Population Bulletin of October 1963 the estimated world birth and death rates are 36 and 18 per thousand of population respectively.
Births Registered
154. The number of births registered in 1963 was 115,263, comprising 113,720 Chinese (58,631 male and 55,089 female), and 1,543 non-Chinese (801 male and 742 female). Table XXIX gives (a) the numbers of births registered during the years 1954 to 1963 by sex and race with the per- centages 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 1963 was the highest ever recorded, exceeding by 3,358 the previous record in 1962. As compared with 1962 the year's birth rate of 32.1 per thousand of population was down 0.7 from the 1962 rate. The number of non-Chinese births, namely 1,543, was the highest ever recorded. The percentages of non-Chinese male and female births at 51.9 and 48.1 showed a slightly greater preponderance of males than in the case of Chinese births, where the percentages were 51.6 and 48.4 as for all births.
155. There is a distinct recurrent pattern in the incidence of births in the various quarters of the year. This is illustrated by Table XXX which shows in graphical form the numbers born quarterly since 1954. It will be seen that except for the first two quarters of 1958 and 1959 the recurrent pattern is first quarter, third highest; second quarter, lowest; third quarter, second highest; fourth quarter, highest. The reversal of the normal pattern in the first two quarters of 1958 and 1959 may have been due to special factors relating to registration procedure con- sequent upon the general re-organization that followed the Registrar General's Department taking over of the registration of births and deaths from the Medical Department on 1st April 1957.
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