How many babies are born in Jamaica each year?

An estimated 31.3 thousand babies are born in Jamaica in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 86 a day and 0.02% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Jamaica?

Jamaica has an estimated 11.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.33 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Jamaica?

31.3 thousand babies born in Jamaica in 2026 — 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 142nd largest of any country. UN projection

86births per day
4per hour
0per minute
11.1births per 1,000 people
1.33children per woman
2.83 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 Jamaica through history

Estimated annual births in Jamaica, 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 Jamaica'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	~0	~8	48.1	Modelled estimate
1000	~420	~9K	47.4	Modelled estimate
1500	~12K	~290K	42.1	Modelled estimate
1800	~10.9K	~300K	36.3	Historical reconstruction
1900	~26K	~728K	35.7	Historical reconstruction
1950	46K	1.41M	32.7	UN estimate
2000	52.5K	2.61M	20.1	UN estimate
2024	32.5K	2.84M	11.4	UN projection
2026	31.3K	2.83M	11.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Jamaica are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1964, at about 67.9K. That is roughly 81348 times the estimated ~0 births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.33 children per woman, fertility in Jamaica 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.