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How many babies are born in Maldives?

5.22 thousand babies born in Maldives in 2026. That is 0.00% of all births worldwide, and the 179th largest of any country. UN projection

2024–2100 uses the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium scenario, based on assumptions about fertility, mortality and migration. These are projections, not observed births or guaranteed outcomes. Uncertainty increases further into the future; this site does not display prediction intervals.

Births in Maldives: history and projections

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Annual births, logarithmic scale. Shading marks modelled years before 1800; the dashed line marks UN projections from 2024.
Every figure refers to the area inside Maldives’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 ~1.77K ~42.4K 41.7 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~2.67K ~64.2K 41.7 Historical reconstruction
1950 3.02K 74.4K 40.6 UN estimate
2000 5.62K 282K 19.9 UN estimate
2023 5.8K 526K 11.0 UN estimate
2026 5.22K 532K 9.8 UN projection
2050 5.29K 590K 9.0 UN projection
2075 4.66K 557K 8.4 UN projection
2100 4.22K 475K 8.9 UN projection

What the numbers show

The highest annual births in Maldives among estimates through 2023 were in 1989, at about 9.34K. That is roughly 5.3 times the estimated ~1.77K births a year in 1800.

At 1.53 children per woman, fertility in Maldives is below the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

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How many babies are born in Maldives each year?

An estimated 5.22 thousand babies are born in Maldives in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 14 a day and 0.00% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Maldives?

Maldives has an estimated 9.8 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.53 children per woman.

Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium scenario. UN estimates cover 1950–2023; projections cover 2024–2100. Earlier years come from 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.