How many babies are born in Moldova each year?

An estimated 30 thousand babies are born in Moldova in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 82 a day and 0.02% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Moldova?

Moldova has an estimated 10.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.72 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Moldova?

30 thousand babies born in Moldova in 2026 — 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 146th largest of any country. UN projection

82births per day
3per hour
0per minute
10.1births per 1,000 people
1.72children per woman
2.96 millionpopulation

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 Moldova through history

Estimated annual births in Moldova, 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 Moldova'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	~2.1K	~52K	40.7	Modelled estimate
1000	~4.4K	~100K	42.5	Modelled estimate
1500	~13K	~310K	42.8	Modelled estimate
1800	~31.5K	~713K	44.3	Historical reconstruction
1900	~65K	~1.48M	43.8	Historical reconstruction
1950	79.4K	2.53M	31.4	UN estimate
2000	49.6K	4.23M	11.7	UN estimate
2024	32.1K	3.03M	10.6	UN projection
2026	30K	2.96M	10.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Moldova are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1987, at about 102K. That is roughly 14 times the estimated ~2.13K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.72 children per woman, fertility in Moldova 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.