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Netherlands vs Sweden: Birth rate

Netherlands
9.28 births per 1,000 people
in 2023
Sweden
9.28 births per 1,000 people
in 2023
Netherlands rank
183rd
Sweden rank
182nd

Birth rate over time

  • Netherlands
  • Sweden
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How they compare

Sweden currently reports 9.28 births per 1,000 people against 9.28 births per 1,000 people in Netherlands, a difference of 0.003 births per 1,000 people.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 174 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Netherlands ahead.

Netherlands ranks 183rd and Sweden ranks 182nd of 236 countries.

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About this data

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