How many babies are born in Mayotte each year?

An estimated 11.5 thousand babies are born in Mayotte 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 Mayotte?

Mayotte has an estimated 33.0 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 4.43 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Mayotte?

11.5 thousand babies born in Mayotte in 2026 — 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 163rd largest of any country. UN projection

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33.0births per 1,000 people
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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 Mayotte through history

Estimated annual births in Mayotte, 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 Mayotte'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	~3	~65	48.6	Historical reconstruction
1900	~10	~200	48.6	Historical reconstruction
1950	1.04K	20.5K	50.9	UN estimate
2000	5.81K	156K	37.1	UN estimate
2024	11.3K	327K	34.5	UN projection
2026	11.5K	348K	33.0	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Mayotte are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 11.5K. That is roughly 52665 times the estimated ~0 births a year in 1600.

At 4.43 children per woman, fertility in Mayotte 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.