Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Europe · Southern Europe

How many babies are born in Spain?

327 thousand babies born in Spain in 2026 — 0.25% of all births worldwide, and the 69th 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 Spain through history

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Estimated annual births in Spain, 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 Spain'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 ~190K ~4.6M 40.4 Modelled estimate
1000 ~160K ~4M 40.8 Modelled estimate
1500 ~270K ~6.5M 42.1 Modelled estimate
1800 ~417K ~11.5M 36.3 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~630K ~18.6M 33.9 Historical reconstruction
1950 563K 28.1M 20.1 UN estimate
2000 399K 41M 9.7 UN estimate
2024 333K 47.9M 7.0 UN projection
2026 327K 47.9M 6.8 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Spain are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1964, at about 692K. That is roughly 1.8 times the estimated ~186K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.24 children per woman, fertility in Spain 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.