How many babies are born in Niger each year?

An estimated 1.16 million babies are born in Niger in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 3,168 a day and 0.87% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Niger?

Niger has an estimated 40.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 5.64 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Niger?

1.16 million babies born in Niger in 2026 — 0.87% of all births worldwide, and the 26th largest of any country. UN projection

3,168births per day
132per hour
2per minute
40.1births per 1,000 people
5.64children per woman
28.81 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 Niger through history

Estimated annual births in Niger, 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 Niger'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	~7K	~170K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~22K	~550K	40.6	Modelled estimate
1500	~34K	~820K	41.2	Modelled estimate
1800	~40.1K	~853K	47.1	Historical reconstruction
1900	~62.1K	~1.32M	47.1	Historical reconstruction
1950	152K	2.6M	58.6	UN estimate
2000	614K	11.5M	53.4	UN estimate
2024	1.12M	27M	41.4	UN projection
2026	1.16M	28.8M	40.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Niger are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 1.16M. That is roughly 165 times the estimated ~7.01K births a year in 1 CE.

At 5.64 children per woman, fertility in Niger 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.