How many babies are born in Portugal each year?

An estimated 85.2 thousand babies are born in Portugal in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 233 a day and 0.06% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Portugal?

Portugal has an estimated 8.2 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.52 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Portugal?

85.2 thousand babies born in Portugal in 2026 — 0.06% of all births worldwide, and the 111th largest of any country. UN projection

233births per day
10per hour
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8.2births per 1,000 people
1.52children per woman
10.4 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 Portugal through history

Estimated annual births in Portugal, 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 Portugal'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	~17K	~410K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1000	~23K	~550K	42.1	Modelled estimate
1500	~50K	~1.1M	44.0	Modelled estimate
1800	~88.7K	~2.75M	32.3	Historical reconstruction
1900	~165K	~5.4M	30.5	Historical reconstruction
1950	206K	8.42M	24.4	UN estimate
2000	119K	10.3M	11.6	UN estimate
2024	86.1K	10.4M	8.3	UN projection
2026	85.2K	10.4M	8.2	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Portugal are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1911, at about ~227K. That is roughly 5.0 times the estimated ~17K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.52 children per woman, fertility in Portugal 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.