Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Asia · South-Eastern Asia

How many babies are born in Laos?

160 thousand babies born in Laos in 2026 — 0.12% of all births worldwide, and the 93rd 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 Laos through history

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Estimated annual births in Laos, 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 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
2024 163K 7.77M 20.9 UN projection
2026 160K 7.97M 20.1 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Laos are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1993, at about 193K. That is roughly 39 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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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.