Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

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How many babies are born in Guyana?

16.1 thousand babies born in Guyana in 2026 — 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 158th largest of any country. UN projection

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 Guyana through history

1K10K 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Guyana, 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 Guyana'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 ~230 ~5.4K 42.3 Modelled estimate
1000 ~2.1K ~50K 41.7 Modelled estimate
1500 ~3.7K ~90K 40.8 Modelled estimate
1800 ~5.9K ~166K 35.5 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~10.9K ~298K 36.7 Historical reconstruction
1950 18.1K 418K 43.4 UN estimate
2000 20.1K 765K 26.2 UN estimate
2024 16.5K 831K 19.9 UN projection
2026 16.1K 841K 19.2 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Guyana are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1971, at about 26.1K. That is roughly 71 times the estimated ~227 births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.35 children per woman, fertility in Guyana 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.