Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Africa · Western Africa

How many babies are born in Burkina Faso?

748 thousand babies born in Burkina Faso in 2026 — 0.56% of all births worldwide, and the 39th 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 Burkina Faso through history

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Estimated annual births in Burkina Faso, 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 Burkina Faso'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 ~8.8K ~210K 41.3 Modelled estimate
1000 ~31K ~740K 41.3 Modelled estimate
1500 ~57K ~1.4M 41.3 Modelled estimate
1800 ~69.9K ~1.67M 42.0 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~97.4K ~2.3M 42.4 Historical reconstruction
1950 183K 4.21M 43.4 UN estimate
2000 540K 11.9M 45.2 UN estimate
2024 738K 23.5M 31.3 UN projection
2026 748K 24.6M 30.4 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Burkina Faso are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2016, at about 753K. That is roughly 85 times the estimated ~8.76K births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.92 children per woman, fertility in Burkina Faso is above 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.