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.

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How many babies are born in Eswatini?

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

80births per day
3per hour
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22.9births per 1,000 people
2.64children per woman
1.27 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 Eswatini through history

Estimated annual births in Eswatini, 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 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
2024	29.4K	1.24M	23.6	UN projection
2026	29.1K	1.27M	22.9	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Eswatini are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1993, at about 36.8K. That is roughly 142 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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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.