Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Americas · Central America

How many babies are born in El Salvador?

96.9 thousand babies born in El Salvador in 2026 — 0.07% of all births worldwide, and the 106th 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 El Salvador through history

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Estimated annual births in El Salvador, 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 El Salvador'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 ~1K ~25K 40.9 Modelled estimate
1000 ~2.4K ~59K 40.9 Modelled estimate
1500 ~3.8K ~92K 40.9 Modelled estimate
1800 ~10.2K ~248K 41.2 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~36.9K ~839K 44.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 102K 2.18M 46.9 UN estimate
2000 161K 5.94M 27.1 UN estimate
2024 98.9K 6.34M 15.6 UN projection
2026 96.9K 6.39M 15.2 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in El Salvador are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1989, at about 182K. That is roughly 95 times the estimated ~1.02K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.74 children per woman, fertility in El Salvador 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.