Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

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How many babies are born in Chile?

169 thousand babies born in Chile in 2026 — 0.13% of all births worldwide, and the 92nd 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 Chile through history

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Estimated annual births in Chile, 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 Chile'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 ~8.1K ~200K 40.7 Modelled estimate
1000 ~16K ~400K 40.8 Modelled estimate
1500 ~24K ~600K 40.5 Modelled estimate
1800 ~32.1K ~771K 41.7 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~120K ~3.14M 38.1 Historical reconstruction
1950 249K 6.63M 37.5 UN estimate
2000 253K 15.5M 16.3 UN estimate
2024 172K 19.8M 8.7 UN projection
2026 169K 19.9M 8.5 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Chile are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1991, at about 298K. That is roughly 21 times the estimated ~8.14K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.12 children per woman, fertility in Chile 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.