How many babies are born in Djibouti each year?

An estimated 24.5 thousand babies are born in Djibouti in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 67 a day and 0.02% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Djibouti?

Djibouti has an estimated 20.4 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.54 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Djibouti?

24.5 thousand babies born in Djibouti in 2026 — 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 150th largest of any country. UN projection

67births per day
3per hour
0per minute
20.4births per 1,000 people
2.54children per woman
1.2 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 Djibouti through history

Estimated annual births in Djibouti, 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 Djibouti'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	~330	~8.3K	40.2	Modelled estimate
1000	~450	~11K	41.2	Modelled estimate
1500	~880	~22K	40.9	Modelled estimate
1800	~998	~22.8K	43.7	Historical reconstruction
1900	~1.85K	~42.3K	43.7	Historical reconstruction
1950	2.82K	62.3K	45.3	UN estimate
2000	25K	747K	33.5	UN estimate
2024	24.5K	1.17M	20.9	UN projection
2026	24.5K	1.2M	20.4	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Djibouti are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2003, at about 26.6K. That is roughly 74 times the estimated ~333 births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.54 children per woman, fertility in Djibouti 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.