Italy vs Spain: Birth rate

Italy

6.46 births per 1,000 people

in 2023

Spain

7.03 births per 1,000 people

in 2023

Italy rank

224th

Spain rank

222nd

Birth rate over time

Spain currently reports 7.03 births per 1,000 people against 6.46 births per 1,000 people in Italy, a difference of 0.566 births per 1,000 people.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.1 times Italy's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 116 shared years of data; in 1908 it was Italy ahead.

Italy ranks 224th and Spain ranks 222nd 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.