How many babies are born in Myanmar each year?

An estimated 881 thousand babies are born in Myanmar in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 2,413 a day and 0.67% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Myanmar?

Myanmar has an estimated 16.0 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.06 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Myanmar?

881 thousand babies born in Myanmar in 2026 — 0.67% of all births worldwide, and the 36th largest of any country. UN projection

2,413births per day
101per hour
2per minute
16.0births per 1,000 people
2.06children per woman
55.18 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 Myanmar through history

Estimated annual births in Myanmar, 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 Myanmar'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	~41K	~1000K	41.0	Modelled estimate
1000	~83K	~2M	41.4	Modelled estimate
1500	~170K	~4M	41.4	Modelled estimate
1800	~252K	~6M	42.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~395K	~9.41M	42.0	Historical reconstruction
1950	812K	17.7M	45.8	UN estimate
2000	1.05M	45.3M	23.2	UN estimate
2024	897K	54.5M	16.5	UN projection
2026	881K	55.2M	16.0	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Myanmar are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1984, at about 1.17M. That is roughly 22 times the estimated ~41K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.06 children per woman, fertility in Myanmar 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.