Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

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How many babies are born in Mauritius?

11.3 thousand babies born in Mauritius in 2026 — 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 165th 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 Mauritius through history

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Estimated annual births in Mauritius, 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 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
2024 11.6K 1.27M 9.1 UN projection
2026 11.3K 1.27M 8.9 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Mauritius are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1963, at about 28.1K. That is roughly 658 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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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.