Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Americas · Central America

How many babies are born in Mexico?

1.99 million babies born in Mexico in 2026 — 1.50% of all births worldwide, and the 13th 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 Mexico through history

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Estimated annual births in Mexico, 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 Mexico'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 ~310K ~7.6M 40.5 Modelled estimate
1000 ~610K ~15M 41.2 Modelled estimate
1500 ~720K ~24M 29.6 Modelled estimate
1800 ~239K ~5.1M 46.9 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~622K ~13.3M 46.9 Historical reconstruction
1950 1.36M 27.6M 49.2 UN estimate
2000 2.39M 98.6M 24.2 UN estimate
2024 2.02M 131M 15.5 UN projection
2026 1.99M 133M 15.0 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Mexico are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1993, at about 2.48M. That is roughly 6.5 times the estimated ~306K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.85 children per woman, fertility in Mexico 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.