Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Oceania · Polynesia

How many babies are born in Samoa?

5.37 thousand babies born in Samoa in 2026 — 0.00% of all births worldwide, and the 178th largest of any country. UN projection

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 Samoa through history

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Estimated annual births in Samoa, 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 Samoa'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 ~0 ~8 44.3 Modelled estimate
1000 ~22 ~490 44.3 Modelled estimate
1500 ~170 ~3.7K 44.3 Modelled estimate
1800 ~2.27K ~47.3K 48.0 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~1.68K ~35.1K 48.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 4.72K 88.3K 53.4 UN estimate
2000 5.82K 182K 32.1 UN estimate
2024 5.44K 218K 25.0 UN projection
2026 5.37K 221K 24.4 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Samoa are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2013, at about 6.05K. That is roughly 15165 times the estimated ~0 births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.70 children per woman, fertility in Samoa 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.