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How many babies are born in Cape Verde?

6.33 thousand babies born in Cape Verde in 2026 — 0.00% of all births worldwide, and the 176th 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 Cape Verde through history

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Estimated annual births in Cape Verde, 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 Cape Verde'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
1800 ~2.48K ~55.7K 44.5 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~6.88K ~151K 45.5 Historical reconstruction
1950 8.63K 185K 46.7 UN estimate
2000 12.6K 453K 27.9 UN estimate
2024 6.41K 525K 12.2 UN projection
2026 6.33K 530K 11.9 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Cape Verde are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1992, at about 15.3K. That is roughly 13 times the estimated ~474 births a year in 1600.

At 1.49 children per woman, fertility in Cape Verde 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.