Official Data: More Than 88,000 Live Births Recorded in the Sultanate Last Year

According to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) bulletin, by the end of 2016 the number of live births in the Sultanate reached 88,346 in total.

In 2016, the number of live births has increased by 242 on a daily basis  from 6 live births in 2015 per day thus  taking the live birth rate per hour at 10.

With a 30 per cent change rate in between 2011 and 2016, a rise in Omani births was risen by 18,987 live births.

Between 2012 and 2013 was the highest increase in live births among Omanis  6,143. In previous years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 a smaller amount of increase in number of Omani births happened to reach 3,236 and 1,942 live births in respective cases.

In 2016 within the 25 to 29 age group, the highest rate of childbearing was 32.1 per cent and 32.7 per cent in 2015.  In 2016, women with childbearing age(over 35 years) birth rate was 21.4 per cent 1.1 per cent more than in 2015.

The largest percentage of Omani live births (40.2 per cent was accounted by the governorates of Muscat and North Al Batinah whereas the governorates of Al Wusta and Musandam recorded the lowest percentage (1.9 per cent).