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How many babies are born in Bosnia & Herzegovina?

24 thousand babies born in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2026 — 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 151st largest of any country. UN projection

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 Bosnia & Herzegovina through history

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Estimated annual births in Bosnia & Herzegovina, 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 Bosnia & Herzegovina'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 ~9.6K ~240K 40.1 Modelled estimate
1000 ~11K ~280K 40.4 Modelled estimate
1500 ~15K ~360K 41.0 Modelled estimate
1800 ~35.1K ~852K 41.2 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~65.2K ~1.76M 37.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 101K 2.69M 37.6 UN estimate
2000 42.6K 4.16M 10.2 UN estimate
2024 24.4K 3.16M 7.7 UN projection
2026 24K 3.11M 7.7 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Bosnia & Herzegovina are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1954, at about 115K. That is roughly 2.5 times the estimated ~9.64K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.50 children per woman, fertility in Bosnia & Herzegovina 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.