Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Africa · Western Africa

How many babies are born in Mauritania?

181 thousand babies born in Mauritania in 2026 — 0.14% of all births worldwide, and the 87th 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 Mauritania through history

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Estimated annual births in Mauritania, 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 Mauritania'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 ~2.2K ~53K 41.4 Modelled estimate
1000 ~7K ~170K 40.6 Modelled estimate
1500 ~11K ~260K 41.0 Modelled estimate
1800 ~16.8K ~383K 44.0 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~15.8K ~359K 44.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 28.3K 658K 43.0 UN estimate
2000 99.1K 2.61M 37.9 UN estimate
2024 176K 5.17M 34.0 UN projection
2026 181K 5.46M 33.2 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Mauritania are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 181K. That is roughly 82 times the estimated ~2.2K births a year in 1 CE.

At 4.49 children per woman, fertility in Mauritania 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.