How many babies are born in Bhutan each year?

An estimated 9.79 thousand babies are born in Bhutan in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 27 a day and 0.01% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Bhutan?

Bhutan has an estimated 12.2 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.43 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Bhutan?

9.79 thousand babies born in Bhutan in 2026 — 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 168th largest of any country. UN projection

27births per day
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12.2births per 1,000 people
1.43children per woman
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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 Bhutan through history

Estimated annual births in Bhutan, 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 Bhutan'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	~17	~390	44.3	Modelled estimate
1000	~400	~10K	40.0	Modelled estimate
1500	~640	~15K	42.6	Modelled estimate
1800	~18.1K	~392K	46.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~12.4K	~269K	46.0	Historical reconstruction
1950	8.35K	170K	49.1	UN estimate
2000	15K	597K	25.2	UN estimate
2024	9.91K	792K	12.5	UN projection
2026	9.79K	802K	12.2	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Bhutan are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1991, at about 22.6K. That is roughly 567 times the estimated ~17 births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.43 children per woman, fertility in Bhutan 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.