How many babies are born in Italy each year?

An estimated 379 thousand babies are born in Italy in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,039 a day and 0.29% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Italy?

Italy has an estimated 6.4 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.22 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Italy?

379 thousand babies born in Italy in 2026 — 0.29% of all births worldwide, and the 64th largest of any country. UN projection

1,039births per day
43per hour
1per minute
6.4births per 1,000 people
1.22children per woman
58.93 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 Italy through history

Estimated annual births in Italy, 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 Italy'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	~290K	~7.5M	39.5	Modelled estimate
1000	~220K	~5.2M	41.9	Modelled estimate
1500	~380K	~9M	42.2	Modelled estimate
1800	~730K	~19M	38.4	Historical reconstruction
1900	~1.07M	~33.3M	32.2	Historical reconstruction
1950	913K	46.4M	19.7	UN estimate
2000	541K	57.3M	9.4	UN estimate
2024	385K	59.3M	6.5	UN projection
2026	379K	58.9M	6.4	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Italy are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1909, at about ~1.09M.

At 1.22 children per woman, fertility in Italy 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.