How many babies are born in Peru each year?

An estimated 533 thousand babies are born in Peru in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,459 a day and 0.40% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Peru?

Peru has an estimated 15.3 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.93 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Peru?

533 thousand babies born in Peru in 2026 — 0.40% of all births worldwide, and the 53rd largest of any country. UN projection

1,459births per day
61per hour
1per minute
15.3births per 1,000 people
1.93children per woman
34.92 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 Peru through history

Estimated annual births in Peru, 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 Peru'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	~61K	~1.5M	40.6	Modelled estimate
1000	~120K	~3M	40.9	Modelled estimate
1500	~150K	~4M	36.3	Modelled estimate
1800	~59.7K	~1.27M	47.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~172K	~3.66M	47.0	Historical reconstruction
1950	369K	7.68M	48.0	UN estimate
2000	634K	26.6M	23.8	UN estimate
2024	539K	34.2M	15.8	UN projection
2026	533K	34.9M	15.3	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Peru are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1989, at about 685K. That is roughly 8.7 times the estimated ~60.9K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.93 children per woman, fertility in Peru 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.