How many babies are born in Colombia each year?

An estimated 685 thousand babies are born in Colombia in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,875 a day and 0.52% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Colombia?

Colombia has an estimated 12.7 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.60 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Colombia?

685 thousand babies born in Colombia in 2026 — 0.52% of all births worldwide, and the 44th largest of any country. UN projection

1,875births per day
78per hour
1per minute
12.7births per 1,000 people
1.60children per woman
53.94 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 Colombia through history

Estimated annual births in Colombia, 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 Colombia'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	~49K	~1.2M	40.7	Modelled estimate
1000	~99K	~2.4M	41.1	Modelled estimate
1500	~150K	~4M	36.4	Modelled estimate
1800	~51.9K	~1.21M	43.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~173K	~4.03M	43.0	Historical reconstruction
1950	546K	11.8M	46.4	UN estimate
2000	870K	39.1M	22.3	UN estimate
2024	701K	52.9M	13.3	UN projection
2026	685K	53.9M	12.7	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Colombia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1994, at about 913K. That is roughly 14 times the estimated ~48.8K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.60 children per woman, fertility in Colombia 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.