How many babies are born in Taiwan each year?

An estimated 123 thousand babies are born in Taiwan in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 336 a day and 0.09% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Taiwan?

Taiwan has an estimated 5.3 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 0.86 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Taiwan?

123 thousand babies born in Taiwan in 2026 — 0.09% of all births worldwide, and the 100th largest of any country. UN projection

336births per day
14per hour
0per minute
5.3births per 1,000 people
0.86children per woman
23.01 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 Taiwan through history

Estimated annual births in Taiwan, 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 Taiwan'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	~4K	~99K	40.0	Modelled estimate
1000	~4.1K	~99K	41.0	Modelled estimate
1500	~8.1K	~200K	40.7	Modelled estimate
1800	~81.4K	~2M	40.7	Historical reconstruction
1900	~111K	~2.81M	39.5	Historical reconstruction
1950	342K	7.6M	45.0	UN estimate
2000	273K	22.3M	12.2	UN estimate
2024	129K	23.2M	5.5	UN projection
2026	123K	23M	5.3	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Taiwan are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1962, at about 432K. That is roughly 31 times the estimated ~3.96K births a year in 1 CE.

At 0.86 children per woman, fertility in Taiwan 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.