How many babies are born in Uganda each year?

An estimated 1.75 million babies are born in Uganda in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 4,783 a day and 1.32% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Uganda?

Uganda has an estimated 33.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 3.97 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Uganda?

1.75 million babies born in Uganda in 2026 — 1.32% of all births worldwide, and the 15th largest of any country. UN projection

4,783births per day
199per hour
3per minute
33.1births per 1,000 people
3.97children per woman
52.76 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 Uganda through history

Estimated annual births in Uganda, 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 Uganda'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	~4.3K	~100K	42.3	Modelled estimate
1000	~33K	~800K	41.5	Modelled estimate
1500	~62K	~1.5M	41.2	Modelled estimate
1800	~119K	~2.5M	47.4	Historical reconstruction
1900	~179K	~3.77M	47.4	Historical reconstruction
1950	301K	5.75M	52.4	UN estimate
2000	1.16M	24M	48.3	UN estimate
2024	1.72M	50M	34.4	UN projection
2026	1.75M	52.8M	33.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Uganda are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 1.75M. That is roughly 410 times the estimated ~4.26K births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.97 children per woman, fertility in Uganda 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.