Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Asia · Southern Asia

How many babies are born in Maldives?

5.22 thousand babies born in Maldives in 2026 — 0.00% of all births worldwide, and the 179th 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 Maldives through history

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Estimated annual births in Maldives, 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 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
2024 5.59K 528K 10.6 UN projection
2026 5.22K 532K 9.8 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Maldives are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1989, at about 9.34K. That is roughly 3.0 times the estimated ~1.76K 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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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.