How many babies are born in Germany each year?

An estimated 690 thousand babies are born in Germany in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,889 a day and 0.52% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Germany?

Germany has an estimated 8.3 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.46 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Germany?

690 thousand babies born in Germany in 2026 — 0.52% of all births worldwide, and the 43rd largest of any country. UN projection

1,889births per day
79per hour
1per minute
8.3births per 1,000 people
1.46children per woman
83.64 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 Germany through history

Estimated annual births in Germany, 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 Germany'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	~120K	~3M	40.8	Modelled estimate
1000	~140K	~3.5M	40.9	Modelled estimate
1500	~390K	~9M	43.3	Modelled estimate
1800	~684K	~18M	38.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~1.96M	~55.8M	35.2	Historical reconstruction
1950	1.21M	69.8M	17.3	UN estimate
2000	766K	81.8M	9.4	UN estimate
2024	717K	84.6M	8.5	UN projection
2026	690K	83.6M	8.3	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Germany are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1908, at about ~2.02M. That is roughly 5.6 times the estimated ~123K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.46 children per woman, fertility in Germany is below 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.