Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Asia · South-Eastern Asia

How many babies are born in Timor-Leste?

30.8 thousand babies born in Timor-Leste in 2026 — 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 144th 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 Timor-Leste through history

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Estimated annual births in Timor-Leste, 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 Timor-Leste'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 ~150 ~3.6K 42.3 Modelled estimate
1000 ~1.4K ~34K 42.3 Modelled estimate
1500 ~4.3K ~100K 42.3 Modelled estimate
1800 ~6.19K ~137K 45.1 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~14.9K ~329K 45.1 Historical reconstruction
1950 17.8K 415K 43.0 UN estimate
2000 28.8K 745K 38.6 UN estimate
2024 30.5K 1.4M 21.8 UN projection
2026 30.8K 1.44M 21.4 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Timor-Leste are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1999, at about 39.1K. That is roughly 202 times the estimated ~153 births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.50 children per woman, fertility in Timor-Leste 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.