How many babies are born in Malawi each year?

An estimated 692 thousand babies are born in Malawi in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,895 a day and 0.52% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Malawi?

Malawi has an estimated 30.4 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 3.45 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Malawi?

692 thousand babies born in Malawi in 2026 — 0.52% of all births worldwide, and the 42nd largest of any country. UN projection

1,895births per day
79per hour
1per minute
30.4births per 1,000 people
3.45children per woman
22.79 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 Malawi through history

Estimated annual births in Malawi, 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 Malawi'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	~1.1K	~27K	42.1	Modelled estimate
1000	~7.4K	~180K	41.7	Modelled estimate
1500	~15K	~360K	41.0	Modelled estimate
1800	~34.4K	~737K	46.7	Historical reconstruction
1900	~96.6K	~2.07M	46.7	Historical reconstruction
1950	146K	2.95M	49.5	UN estimate
2000	504K	11.3M	44.6	UN estimate
2024	674K	21.7M	31.1	UN projection
2026	692K	22.8M	30.4	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Malawi are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 692K. That is roughly 620 times the estimated ~1.12K births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.45 children per woman, fertility in Malawi 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.