How many babies are born in Macao each year?

An estimated 4.44 thousand babies are born in Macao in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 12 a day and 0.00% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Macao?

Macao has an estimated 6.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 0.70 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Macao?

4.44 thousand babies born in Macao in 2026 — 0.00% of all births worldwide, and the 180th largest of any country. UN projection

12births per day
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6.1births per 1,000 people
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723.2 thousandpopulation

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 Macao through history

Estimated annual births in Macao, 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 Macao'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
1800	~670	~17.3K	38.7	Historical reconstruction
1900	~2.48K	~64K	38.7	Historical reconstruction
1950	9.36K	197K	47.6	UN estimate
2000	3.85K	437K	8.8	UN estimate
2024	4.6K	720K	6.4	UN projection
2026	4.44K	723K	6.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Macao are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1940, at about ~12K. That is roughly 209 times the estimated ~21 births a year in 1555.

At 0.70 children per woman, fertility in Macao 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.