How many babies are born in Sudan each year?

An estimated 1.69 million babies are born in Sudan in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 4,638 a day and 1.28% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Sudan?

Sudan has an estimated 31.8 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 4.13 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Sudan?

1.69 million babies born in Sudan in 2026 — 1.28% of all births worldwide, and the 16th largest of any country. UN projection

4,638births per day
193per hour
3per minute
31.8births per 1,000 people
4.13children per woman
53.28 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 Sudan through history

Estimated annual births in Sudan, 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 Sudan'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	~81K	~2M	40.3	Modelled estimate
1000	~120K	~3M	40.5	Modelled estimate
1500	~160K	~4M	40.7	Modelled estimate
1800	~183K	~3.99M	45.9	Historical reconstruction
1900	~237K	~5.16M	45.9	Historical reconstruction
1950	297K	6.19M	48.0	UN estimate
2000	1.14M	27.8M	40.8	UN estimate
2024	1.66M	50.4M	33.0	UN projection
2026	1.69M	53.3M	31.8	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Sudan are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 1.69M. That is roughly 21 times the estimated ~80.7K births a year in 1 CE.

At 4.13 children per woman, fertility in Sudan 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.