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How many babies are born in Côte d'Ivoire?

1.03 million babies born in Côte d'Ivoire in 2026 — 0.78% of all births worldwide, and the 30th 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 Côte d'Ivoire through history

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Estimated annual births in Côte d'Ivoire, 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 Côte d'Ivoire'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 ~5.8K ~140K 41.4 Modelled estimate
1000 ~22K ~530K 41.4 Modelled estimate
1500 ~43K ~1000K 41.4 Modelled estimate
1800 ~50.9K ~1.09M 46.7 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~70.3K ~1.51M 46.7 Historical reconstruction
1950 148K 2.74M 54.3 UN estimate
2000 784K 17.7M 44.3 UN estimate
2024 1.01M 31.9M 31.6 UN projection
2026 1.03M 33.5M 30.7 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Côte d'Ivoire are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 1.03M. That is roughly 179 times the estimated ~5.75K births a year in 1 CE.

At 4.10 children per woman, fertility in Côte d'Ivoire 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.