How many babies are born in Chad each year?

An estimated 910 thousand babies are born in Chad in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 2,491 a day and 0.69% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Chad?

Chad has an estimated 42.2 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 5.83 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Chad?

910 thousand babies born in Chad in 2026 — 0.69% of all births worldwide, and the 33rd largest of any country. UN projection

2,491births per day
104per hour
2per minute
42.2births per 1,000 people
5.83children per woman
21.56 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 Chad through history

Estimated annual births in Chad, 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 Chad'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	~7.1K	~170K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~23K	~560K	40.6	Modelled estimate
1500	~34K	~830K	41.0	Modelled estimate
1800	~60.4K	~1.43M	42.2	Historical reconstruction
1900	~75.8K	~1.8M	42.2	Historical reconstruction
1950	119K	2.53M	47.0	UN estimate
2000	439K	8.51M	51.6	UN estimate
2024	878K	20.3M	43.3	UN projection
2026	910K	21.6M	42.2	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Chad are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 910K. That is roughly 128 times the estimated ~7.12K births a year in 1 CE.

At 5.83 children per woman, fertility in Chad 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.