Iraq vs Samoa: Birth rate

Iraq

25.73 births per 1,000 people

in 2023

Samoa

25.4 births per 1,000 people

in 2023

Iraq rank

52nd

Samoa rank

54th

Birth rate over time

Iraq currently reports 25.73 births per 1,000 people against 25.4 births per 1,000 people in Samoa, a difference of 0.327 births per 1,000 people.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Samoa ahead.

Iraq ranks 52nd and Samoa ranks 54th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Birth rate
Unit: births per 1,000 people
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 18,723 data points, 1751–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The total number of births per 1,000 people in a given year.