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2024
UN estimate
Modern borders. These countries did not exist yet — each figure is for the land inside today's boundaries. Why?
The world this year
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babies born · — per 1,000 people
- —per day
- —per hour
- —per minute
- —per second
— most births of any country
Where the babies are born
World population —
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A statistical estimate, not a count. It spreads the UN's projected births for 2026 evenly across the year — no birth shown here is a real registered birth.
Total births
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