How many babies are born in Brazil each year?

An estimated 2.49 million babies are born in Brazil in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 6,824 a day and 1.88% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Brazil?

Brazil has an estimated 11.7 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.59 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Brazil?

2.49 million babies born in Brazil in 2026 — 1.88% of all births worldwide, and the 10th largest of any country. UN projection

6,824births per day
284per hour
5per minute
11.7births per 1,000 people
1.59children per woman
213.6 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 Brazil through history

Estimated annual births in Brazil, 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 Brazil'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	~260K	~6.3M	40.7	Modelled estimate
1000	~460K	~11M	40.6	Modelled estimate
1500	~570K	~19M	30.4	Modelled estimate
1800	~109K	~2.5M	43.4	Historical reconstruction
1900	~792K	~18.1M	43.9	Historical reconstruction
1950	2.48M	53.4M	46.4	UN estimate
2000	3.46M	174M	19.9	UN estimate
2024	2.57M	212M	12.1	UN projection
2026	2.49M	214M	11.7	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Brazil are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1983, at about 4M. That is roughly 9.7 times the estimated ~256K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.59 children per woman, fertility in Brazil 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.