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How many babies are born in Mauritius?

11.3 thousand babies born in Mauritius in 2026. That is 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 165th 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 Mauritius: 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 Mauritius’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 ~2.1K ~59K 35.6 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~15.2K ~393K 38.6 Historical reconstruction
1950 22.2K 526K 42.3 UN estimate
2000 20.2K 1.22M 16.6 UN estimate
2023 11.8K 1.27M 9.3 UN estimate
2026 11.3K 1.27M 8.9 UN projection
2050 7.35K 1.11M 6.6 UN projection
2075 5.24K 840K 6.2 UN projection
2100 3.72K 582K 6.4 UN projection

What the numbers show

The highest annual births in Mauritius among estimates through 2023 were in 1963, at about 28.1K. That is roughly 1,639 times the estimated ~17 births a year in 1700.

At 1.21 children per woman, fertility in Mauritius 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 Mauritius each year?

An estimated 11.3 thousand babies are born in Mauritius in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 31 a day and 0.01% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Mauritius?

Mauritius has an estimated 8.9 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.21 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.