How many babies are born in Honduras each year?

An estimated 234 thousand babies are born in Honduras in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 641 a day and 0.18% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Honduras?

Honduras has an estimated 20.9 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.42 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Honduras?

234 thousand babies born in Honduras in 2026 — 0.18% of all births worldwide, and the 83rd largest of any country. UN projection

641births per day
27per hour
0per minute
20.9births per 1,000 people
2.42children per woman
11.18 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 Honduras through history

Estimated annual births in Honduras, 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 Honduras'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	~1.6K	~38K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1000	~15K	~360K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1500	~40K	~1.1M	37.0	Modelled estimate
1800	~5.47K	~130K	42.1	Historical reconstruction
1900	~23.1K	~530K	43.5	Historical reconstruction
1950	81.8K	1.56M	52.5	UN estimate
2000	225K	6.58M	34.2	UN estimate
2024	234K	10.8M	21.6	UN projection
2026	234K	11.2M	20.9	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Honduras are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2025, at about 235K. That is roughly 144 times the estimated ~1.63K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.42 children per woman, fertility in Honduras 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.