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How many babies are born in Laos?

160 thousand babies born in Laos in 2026. That is 0.12% of all births worldwide, and the 93rd largest of any country. UN projection

2024–2100 uses the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium scenario, based on assumptions about fertility, mortality and migration. These are projections, not observed births or guaranteed outcomes. Uncertainty increases further into the future; this site does not display prediction intervals.

Births in Laos: history and projections

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Annual births, logarithmic scale. Shading marks modelled years before 1800; the dashed line marks UN projections from 2024.
Every figure refers to the area inside Laos’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 ~4.1K ~100K 40.8 Modelled estimate
1000 ~10K ~240K 41.4 Modelled estimate
1500 ~17K ~400K 41.4 Modelled estimate
1800 ~20K ~470K 42.6 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~58.8K ~1.38M 42.6 Historical reconstruction
1950 81.2K 1.68M 48.2 UN estimate
2000 179K 5.43M 32.9 UN estimate
2023 163K 7.66M 21.3 UN estimate
2026 160K 7.97M 20.1 UN projection
2050 136K 9.76M 13.9 UN projection
2075 109K 10.1M 10.8 UN projection
2100 86.7K 9.26M 9.4 UN projection

What the numbers show

The highest annual births in Laos among estimates through 2023 were in 1993, at about 193K. That is roughly 47 times the estimated ~4.09K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.33 children per woman, fertility in Laos is above the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

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How many babies are born in Laos each year?

An estimated 160 thousand babies are born in Laos in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 438 a day and 0.12% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Laos?

Laos has an estimated 20.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.33 children per woman.

Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium scenario. UN estimates cover 1950–2023; projections cover 2024–2100. Earlier years come from 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.