How many babies are born in Cuba each year?

An estimated 92.4 thousand babies are born in Cuba in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 253 a day and 0.07% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Cuba?

Cuba has an estimated 8.5 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.46 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Cuba?

92.4 thousand babies born in Cuba in 2026 — 0.07% of all births worldwide, and the 109th largest of any country. UN projection

253births per day
11per hour
0per minute
8.5births per 1,000 people
1.46children per woman
10.89 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 Cuba through history

Estimated annual births in Cuba, 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 Cuba'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	~95	~2.2K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1000	~890	~21K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1500	~2.7K	~64K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1800	~11K	~272K	40.4	Historical reconstruction
1900	~56K	~1.72M	32.6	Historical reconstruction
1950	190K	5.92M	32.1	UN estimate
2000	143K	11.1M	12.9	UN estimate
2024	94.6K	11M	8.6	UN projection
2026	92.4K	10.9M	8.5	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Cuba are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1965, at about 276K. That is roughly 972 times the estimated ~95 births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.46 children per woman, fertility in Cuba 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.