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How many babies are born in Eswatini?

29.1 thousand babies born in Eswatini in 2026. That is 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 147th largest of any country. UN projection

2024–2100 uses the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium scenario, based on assumptions about fertility, mortality and migration. These are projections, not observed births or guaranteed outcomes. Uncertainty increases further into the future; this site does not display prediction intervals.

Births in Eswatini: history and projections

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Annual births, logarithmic scale. Shading marks modelled years before 1800; the dashed line marks UN projections from 2024.
Every figure refers to the area inside Eswatini’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 ~200 ~5.1K 40.0 Modelled estimate
1000 ~260 ~6.3K 41.4 Modelled estimate
1500 ~520 ~13K 41.3 Modelled estimate
1800 ~3.98K ~86K 46.3 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~5.05K ~109K 46.3 Historical reconstruction
1950 13.7K 272K 50.3 UN estimate
2000 33.9K 1.04M 32.6 UN estimate
2023 29.6K 1.23M 24.1 UN estimate
2026 29.1K 1.27M 22.9 UN projection
2050 24.9K 1.51M 16.5 UN projection
2075 19.5K 1.51M 12.9 UN projection
2100 14.9K 1.34M 11.1 UN projection

What the numbers show

The highest annual births in Eswatini among estimates through 2023 were in 1993, at about 36.8K. That is roughly 180 times the estimated ~205 births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.64 children per woman, fertility in Eswatini is above the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

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How many babies are born in Eswatini each year?

An estimated 29.1 thousand babies are born in Eswatini in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 80 a day and 0.02% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Eswatini?

Eswatini has an estimated 22.9 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.64 children per woman.

Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium scenario. UN estimates cover 1950–2023; projections cover 2024–2100. Earlier years come from 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.