How many babies are born in Gambia each year?

An estimated 82.6 thousand babies are born in Gambia in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 226 a day and 0.06% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Gambia?

Gambia has an estimated 28.6 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 3.70 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Gambia?

82.6 thousand babies born in Gambia in 2026 — 0.06% of all births worldwide, and the 114th largest of any country. UN projection

226births per day
9per hour
0per minute
28.6births per 1,000 people
3.70children per woman
2.88 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 Gambia through history

Estimated annual births in Gambia, 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 Gambia'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	~20	~470	41.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~74	~1.8K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1500	~150	~3.5K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1800	~4.65K	~103K	45.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~7.52K	~167K	45.0	Historical reconstruction
1950	15.2K	307K	49.7	UN estimate
2000	59.7K	1.46M	41.1	UN estimate
2024	82.4K	2.76M	29.9	UN projection
2026	82.6K	2.88M	28.6	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Gambia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 82.6K. That is roughly 4222 times the estimated ~20 births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.70 children per woman, fertility in Gambia 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.