How many babies are born in Mali each year?

An estimated 1.01 million babies are born in Mali in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 2,753 a day and 0.76% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Mali?

Mali has an estimated 38.8 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 5.33 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Mali?

1.01 million babies born in Mali in 2026 — 0.76% of all births worldwide, and the 31st largest of any country. UN projection

2,753births per day
115per hour
2per minute
38.8births per 1,000 people
5.33children per woman
25.93 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 Mali through history

Estimated annual births in Mali, 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 Mali'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	~9.2K	~220K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~29K	~720K	40.6	Modelled estimate
1500	~45K	~1.1M	41.1	Modelled estimate
1800	~60.7K	~1.4M	43.3	Historical reconstruction
1900	~101K	~2.33M	43.3	Historical reconstruction
1950	244K	4.7M	52.0	UN estimate
2000	544K	11.6M	47.1	UN estimate
2024	968K	24.5M	39.5	UN projection
2026	1.01M	25.9M	38.8	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Mali are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 1M. That is roughly 109 times the estimated ~9.24K births a year in 1 CE.

At 5.33 children per woman, fertility in Mali 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.