How many babies are born in Argentina each year?

An estimated 510 thousand babies are born in Argentina in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,397 a day and 0.39% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Argentina?

Argentina has an estimated 11.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.51 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Argentina?

510 thousand babies born in Argentina in 2026 — 0.39% of all births worldwide, and the 54th largest of any country. UN projection

1,397births per day
58per hour
1per minute
11.1births per 1,000 people
1.51children per woman
46 millionpopulation

Plus or minus about 6%. These years have not happened yet or have not been counted yet. They are the medium variant of the UN's projection, not a record of births that took place.

Births in Argentina through history

Estimated annual births in Argentina, 0 CE to 2026, on a logarithmic scale. The shaded band on the left marks the years where births are modelled rather than recorded. The marker sits on 2026.

Every figure refers to the area inside Argentina's present-day borders. Before 1800 the state did not exist in its current form — see how borders are handled.
Year	Estimated births	Population	Per 1,000	Evidence
1 CE	~4.1K	~100K	41.0	Modelled estimate
1000	~8.2K	~200K	40.8	Modelled estimate
1500	~12K	~300K	40.5	Modelled estimate
1800	~25K	~534K	46.9	Historical reconstruction
1900	~208K	~4.69M	44.4	Historical reconstruction
1950	443K	17M	26.0	UN estimate
2000	719K	37.2M	19.3	UN estimate
2024	507K	45.7M	11.1	UN projection
2026	510K	46M	11.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Argentina are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2014, at about 775K. That is roughly 124 times the estimated ~4.1K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.51 children per woman, fertility in Argentina is below the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

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Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium variant. Earlier years come from the UN's estimates (1950 onward), Gapminder's reconstructions (1800–1949) and a model applied to HYDE population estimates (before 1800). The full chain is set out in the methodology, and every source is listed on the sources page.