How many babies are born in Cameroon each year?

An estimated 992 thousand babies are born in Cameroon in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 2,715 a day and 0.75% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Cameroon?

Cameroon has an estimated 32.4 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 4.12 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Cameroon?

992 thousand babies born in Cameroon in 2026 — 0.75% of all births worldwide, and the 32nd largest of any country. UN projection

2,715births per day
113per hour
2per minute
32.4births per 1,000 people
4.12children per woman
30.64 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 Cameroon through history

Estimated annual births in Cameroon, 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 Cameroon'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	~7.7K	~190K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~29K	~710K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1500	~57K	~1.4M	41.4	Modelled estimate
1800	~72.3K	~1.86M	38.9	Historical reconstruction
1900	~125K	~3.22M	38.9	Historical reconstruction
1950	191K	4.33M	44.1	UN estimate
2000	610K	14.9M	40.9	UN estimate
2024	971K	29.1M	33.3	UN projection
2026	992K	30.6M	32.4	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Cameroon are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 992K. That is roughly 129 times the estimated ~7.7K births a year in 1 CE.

At 4.12 children per woman, fertility in Cameroon 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.