How many babies are born in Nepal each year?

An estimated 542 thousand babies are born in Nepal in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,484 a day and 0.41% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Nepal?

Nepal has an estimated 18.3 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.92 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Nepal?

542 thousand babies born in Nepal in 2026 — 0.41% of all births worldwide, and the 52nd largest of any country. UN projection

1,484births per day
62per hour
1per minute
18.3births per 1,000 people
1.92children per woman
29.63 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 Nepal through history

Estimated annual births in Nepal, 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 Nepal'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	~40K	~1000K	40.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~61K	~1.5M	40.5	Modelled estimate
1500	~82K	~2M	41.2	Modelled estimate
1800	~171K	~4M	42.7	Historical reconstruction
1900	~219K	~5.12M	42.7	Historical reconstruction
1950	391K	8.4M	46.5	UN estimate
2000	760K	24.5M	31.0	UN estimate
2024	562K	29.7M	19.0	UN projection
2026	542K	29.6M	18.3	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Nepal are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1995, at about 820K. That is roughly 13 times the estimated ~40.4K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.92 children per woman, fertility in Nepal 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.