How many babies are born in Senegal each year?

An estimated 554 thousand babies are born in Senegal in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,518 a day and 0.42% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Senegal?

Senegal has an estimated 28.6 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 3.66 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Senegal?

554 thousand babies born in Senegal in 2026 — 0.42% of all births worldwide, and the 51st largest of any country. UN projection

1,518births per day
63per hour
1per minute
28.6births per 1,000 people
3.66children per woman
19.37 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 Senegal through history

Estimated annual births in Senegal, 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 Senegal'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	~550	~13K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1000	~5.1K	~120K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1500	~16K	~370K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1800	~40.3K	~1.01M	39.9	Historical reconstruction
1900	~54.9K	~1.38M	39.9	Historical reconstruction
1950	131K	2.56M	51.3	UN estimate
2000	392K	9.97M	39.3	UN estimate
2024	540K	18.5M	29.2	UN projection
2026	554K	19.4M	28.6	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Senegal are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 555K. That is roughly 1004 times the estimated ~552 births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.66 children per woman, fertility in Senegal 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.