Australia vs Iceland: Peak birth month each year and the daily birth rate that month

Australia
35.07 births per million people
in 2021
Iceland
35.4 births per million people
in 2023
Australia rank
7th
Iceland rank
5th

Peak birth month each year and the daily birth rate that month over time

  • Australia
  • Iceland
255075100125187819502023

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 35.4 births per million people against 35.07 births per million people in Australia, a difference of 0.3306 births per million people.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Iceland ahead.

Australia ranks 7th and Iceland ranks 5th of 40 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Peak birth month each year and the daily birth rate that month
Unit
births per million people
Source
Human Mortality Database (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
40 places, 3,607 data points, 1840–2024
Last refreshed

The highest average daily number of births, per million people, recorded in the given year.