Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

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How many babies are born in Latvia?

13.3 thousand babies born in Latvia in 2026 — 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 162nd 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 Latvia through history

10K 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Latvia, 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 Latvia'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 ~1.6K ~40K 40.5 Modelled estimate
1000 ~2.7K ~67K 40.5 Modelled estimate
1500 ~3.5K ~86K 40.5 Modelled estimate
1800 ~21.7K ~591K 36.7 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~55.7K ~2.15M 25.9 Historical reconstruction
1950 33K 1.92M 17.2 UN estimate
2000 20.3K 2.37M 8.6 UN estimate
2024 14K 1.87M 7.5 UN projection
2026 13.3K 1.84M 7.3 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Latvia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1909, at about ~60.8K. That is roughly 8.3 times the estimated ~1.61K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.35 children per woman, fertility in Latvia 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.