Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Europe · Northern Europe

How many babies are born in Iceland?

4.35 thousand babies born in Iceland in 2026 — 0.00% of all births worldwide, and the 181st 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 Iceland through history

1K 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Iceland, 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 Iceland'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 ~340 ~8.5K 40.2 Modelled estimate
1000 ~2.3K ~50K 45.5 Modelled estimate
1500 ~2.4K ~60K 39.3 Modelled estimate
1800 ~2.13K ~61.4K 34.7 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~2.31K ~77.9K 29.6 Historical reconstruction
1950 4.1K 143K 28.8 UN estimate
2000 4.28K 281K 15.2 UN estimate
2024 4.37K 393K 11.1 UN projection
2026 4.35K 402K 10.8 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Iceland are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2009, at about 5.07K. That is roughly 13 times the estimated ~342 births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.49 children per woman, fertility in Iceland 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.