How many babies are born in Equatorial Guinea each year?

An estimated 57.9 thousand babies are born in Equatorial Guinea in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 159 a day and 0.04% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Equatorial Guinea?

Equatorial Guinea has an estimated 29.2 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 3.96 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Equatorial Guinea?

57.9 thousand babies born in Equatorial Guinea in 2026 — 0.04% of all births worldwide, and the 128th largest of any country. UN projection

159births per day
7per hour
0per minute
29.2births per 1,000 people
3.96children per woman
1.98 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 Equatorial Guinea through history

Estimated annual births in Equatorial Guinea, 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 Equatorial Guinea'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	~780	~19K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1000	~2.2K	~55K	40.5	Modelled estimate
1500	~4.6K	~110K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1800	~3.11K	~80.4K	38.7	Historical reconstruction
1900	~5.23K	~135K	38.7	Historical reconstruction
1950	9.64K	227K	42.5	UN estimate
2000	28.7K	703K	40.8	UN estimate
2024	56.8K	1.89M	30.0	UN projection
2026	57.9K	1.98M	29.2	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Equatorial Guinea are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 57.9K. That is roughly 74 times the estimated ~784 births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.96 children per woman, fertility in Equatorial Guinea is above the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

See Equatorial Guinea on the map

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.