How many babies are born in Dominican Republic each year?

An estimated 197 thousand babies are born in Dominican Republic in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 539 a day and 0.15% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Dominican Republic?

Dominican Republic has an estimated 17.0 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.17 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Dominican Republic?

197 thousand babies born in Dominican Republic in 2026 — 0.15% of all births worldwide, and the 86th largest of any country. UN projection

539births per day
22per hour
0per minute
17.0births per 1,000 people
2.17children per woman
11.61 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 Dominican Republic through history

Estimated annual births in Dominican Republic, 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 Dominican Republic'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	~300	~7K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1000	~2.8K	~66K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1500	~7.8K	~200K	38.9	Modelled estimate
1800	~6.42K	~150K	42.8	Historical reconstruction
1900	~22.3K	~521K	42.8	Historical reconstruction
1950	126K	2.38M	53.1	UN estimate
2000	219K	8.58M	25.6	UN estimate
2024	201K	11.4M	17.6	UN projection
2026	197K	11.6M	17.0	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Dominican Republic are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1993, at about 221K. That is roughly 661 times the estimated ~298 births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.17 children per woman, fertility in Dominican Republic 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.