Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Oceania · Melanesia

How many babies are born in Vanuatu?

9.19 thousand babies born in Vanuatu in 2026 — 0.01% of all births worldwide, and the 169th 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 Vanuatu through history

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Estimated annual births in Vanuatu, 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 Vanuatu'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 ~1 ~15 45.0 Modelled estimate
1000 ~41 ~920 44.3 Modelled estimate
1500 ~310 ~7K 44.3 Modelled estimate
1800 ~1.27K ~27.8K 45.6 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~2.73K ~59.8K 45.6 Historical reconstruction
1950 2.15K 51.5K 41.6 UN estimate
2000 6.02K 186K 32.3 UN estimate
2024 9.06K 328K 27.6 UN projection
2026 9.19K 343K 26.8 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Vanuatu are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 9.19K. That is roughly 13627 times the estimated ~1 births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.50 children per woman, fertility in Vanuatu 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.