How many babies are born in Rwanda each year?

An estimated 409 thousand babies are born in Rwanda in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,121 a day and 0.31% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Rwanda?

Rwanda has an estimated 27.5 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 3.54 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Rwanda?

409 thousand babies born in Rwanda in 2026 — 0.31% of all births worldwide, and the 61st largest of any country. UN projection

1,121births per day
47per hour
1per minute
27.5births per 1,000 people
3.54children per woman
14.89 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 Rwanda through history

Estimated annual births in Rwanda, 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 Rwanda'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	~420	~9.6K	44.0	Modelled estimate
1000	~12K	~290K	42.0	Modelled estimate
1500	~25K	~600K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1800	~45.1K	~928K	48.6	Historical reconstruction
1900	~73.6K	~1.52M	48.6	Historical reconstruction
1950	126K	2.16M	58.3	UN estimate
2000	346K	8.21M	42.1	UN estimate
2024	400K	14.3M	28.1	UN projection
2026	409K	14.9M	27.5	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Rwanda are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 409K. That is roughly 972 times the estimated ~421 births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.54 children per woman, fertility in Rwanda 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.