How many babies are born in Guatemala each year?

An estimated 380 thousand babies are born in Guatemala in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,042 a day and 0.29% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Guatemala?

Guatemala has an estimated 20.1 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 Guatemala?

380 thousand babies born in Guatemala in 2026 — 0.29% of all births worldwide, and the 63rd largest of any country. UN projection

1,042births per day
43per hour
1per minute
20.1births per 1,000 people
2.23children per woman
18.97 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 Guatemala through history

Estimated annual births in Guatemala, 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 Guatemala'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	~6.1K	~150K	40.9	Modelled estimate
1000	~25K	~600K	41.8	Modelled estimate
1500	~31K	~800K	39.3	Modelled estimate
1800	~20.7K	~463K	44.6	Historical reconstruction
1900	~60.4K	~1.35M	44.6	Historical reconstruction
1950	157K	3.1M	50.7	UN estimate
2000	406K	11.7M	34.7	UN estimate
2024	380K	18.4M	20.6	UN projection
2026	380K	19M	20.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Guatemala are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2016, at about 422K. That is roughly 62 times the estimated ~6.12K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.23 children per woman, fertility in Guatemala 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.