How many babies are born in Fiji each year?

An estimated 16.3 thousand babies are born in Fiji in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 45 a day and 0.01% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Fiji?

Fiji has an estimated 17.4 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.23 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Fiji?

16.3 thousand babies born in Fiji in 2026 — 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 157th largest of any country. UN projection

45births per day
2per hour
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17.4births per 1,000 people
2.23children per woman
937.3 thousandpopulation

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 Fiji through history

Estimated annual births in Fiji, 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 Fiji'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	~430	~10K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1000	~1.2K	~30K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1500	~2.1K	~51K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1800	~5.83K	~131K	44.6	Historical reconstruction
1900	~5.65K	~126K	44.6	Historical reconstruction
1950	13K	310K	42.1	UN estimate
2000	20.5K	841K	24.3	UN estimate
2024	16.6K	929K	17.9	UN projection
2026	16.3K	937K	17.4	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Fiji are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1984, at about 23.6K. That is roughly 38 times the estimated ~431 births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.23 children per woman, fertility in Fiji 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.