How many babies are born in Uruguay each year?

An estimated 32.9 thousand babies are born in Uruguay in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 90 a day and 0.02% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Uruguay?

Uruguay has an estimated 9.7 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.38 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Uruguay?

32.9 thousand babies born in Uruguay in 2026 — 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 141st largest of any country. UN projection

90births per day
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9.7births per 1,000 people
1.38children per woman
3.38 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 Uruguay through history

Estimated annual births in Uruguay, 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 Uruguay'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	~200	~4.9K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1000	~580	~14K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1500	~990	~24K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1800	~2.29K	~55K	41.6	Historical reconstruction
1900	~30.9K	~920K	33.6	Historical reconstruction
1950	46.9K	2.23M	21.0	UN estimate
2000	52.1K	3.27M	15.9	UN estimate
2024	33.2K	3.39M	9.8	UN projection
2026	32.9K	3.38M	9.7	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Uruguay are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1976, at about 61.8K. That is roughly 164 times the estimated ~201 births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.38 children per woman, fertility in Uruguay 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.