How many babies are born in Malaysia each year?

An estimated 440 thousand babies are born in Malaysia in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,205 a day and 0.33% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Malaysia?

Malaysia has an estimated 12.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.52 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Malaysia?

440 thousand babies born in Malaysia in 2026 — 0.33% of all births worldwide, and the 59th largest of any country. UN projection

1,205births per day
50per hour
1per minute
12.1births per 1,000 people
1.52children per woman
36.39 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 Malaysia through history

Estimated annual births in Malaysia, 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 Malaysia'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	~310	~7K	44.3	Modelled estimate
1000	~8.2K	~200K	41.2	Modelled estimate
1500	~16K	~400K	41.5	Modelled estimate
1800	~11K	~287K	38.3	Historical reconstruction
1900	~80.2K	~2.09M	38.3	Historical reconstruction
1950	273K	6.1M	44.7	UN estimate
2000	519K	23M	22.6	UN estimate
2024	439K	35.6M	12.4	UN projection
2026	440K	36.4M	12.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Malaysia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1996, at about 544K. That is roughly 1416 times the estimated ~311 births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.52 children per woman, fertility in Malaysia 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.