How many babies are born in Canada each year?

An estimated 361 thousand babies are born in Canada in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 989 a day and 0.27% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Canada?

Canada has an estimated 8.9 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.33 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Canada?

361 thousand babies born in Canada in 2026 — 0.27% of all births worldwide, and the 66th largest of any country. UN projection

989births per day
41per hour
1per minute
8.9births per 1,000 people
1.33children per woman
40.47 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 Canada through history

Estimated annual births in Canada, 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 Canada'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	~2K	~50K	40.9	Modelled estimate
1000	~4.1K	~100K	41.0	Modelled estimate
1500	~8.1K	~200K	40.7	Modelled estimate
1800	~20K	~500K	40.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~162K	~5.41M	30.0	Historical reconstruction
1950	359K	13.7M	26.1	UN estimate
2000	330K	30.9M	10.7	UN estimate
2024	361K	39.7M	9.1	UN projection
2026	361K	40.5M	8.9	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Canada are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1959, at about 464K. That is roughly 178 times the estimated ~2.03K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.33 children per woman, fertility in Canada 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.