How many babies are born in Réunion each year?

An estimated 11.3 thousand babies are born in Réunion in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 31 a day and 0.01% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Réunion?

Réunion has an estimated 12.8 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.12 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Réunion?

11.3 thousand babies born in Réunion in 2026 — 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 164th largest of any country. UN projection

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12.8births per 1,000 people
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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 Réunion through history

Estimated annual births in Réunion, 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 Réunion'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
1500	~16	~370	42.4	Modelled estimate
1800	~2.74K	~60.8K	45.0	Historical reconstruction
1900	~7.77K	~173K	45.0	Historical reconstruction
1950	12.6K	249K	50.4	UN estimate
2000	14.8K	763K	19.4	UN estimate
2024	11.7K	879K	13.3	UN projection
2026	11.3K	886K	12.8	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Réunion are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1966, at about 16.6K. That is roughly 717 times the estimated ~16 births a year in 1500.

At 2.12 children per woman, fertility in Réunion 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.