How many babies are born in Australia each year?

An estimated 303 thousand babies are born in Australia in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 830 a day and 0.23% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Australia?

Australia has an estimated 11.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.64 children per woman.

Oceania · Australia/New Zealand

How many babies are born in Australia?

303 thousand babies born in Australia in 2026 — 0.23% of all births worldwide, and the 71st largest of any country. UN projection

830births per day
35per hour
1per minute
11.1births per 1,000 people
1.64children per woman
27.23 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 Australia through history

Estimated annual births in Australia, 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 Australia'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	~13K	~310K	40.0	Modelled estimate
1000	~13K	~310K	40.0	Modelled estimate
1500	~13K	~320K	40.0	Modelled estimate
1800	~8.99K	~200K	45.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~101K	~3.69M	27.3	Historical reconstruction
1950	189K	8.18M	23.1	UN estimate
2000	249K	19.1M	13.0	UN estimate
2024	305K	26.7M	11.4	UN projection
2026	303K	27.2M	11.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Australia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2018, at about 314K. That is roughly 24 times the estimated ~12.6K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.64 children per woman, fertility in Australia 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.