Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Asia · South-Eastern Asia

How many babies are born in Vietnam?

1.31 million babies born in Vietnam in 2026 — 0.99% of all births worldwide, and the 22nd 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 Vietnam through history

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Estimated annual births in Vietnam, 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 Vietnam'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 ~16K ~400K 40.8 Modelled estimate
1000 ~33K ~800K 41.6 Modelled estimate
1500 ~83K ~2M 41.7 Modelled estimate
1800 ~134K ~4M 33.5 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~396K ~11.8M 33.5 Historical reconstruction
1950 973K 25.1M 38.8 UN estimate
2000 1.39M 77.2M 18.0 UN estimate
2024 1.36M 101M 13.4 UN projection
2026 1.31M 102M 12.8 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Vietnam are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1984, at about 1.92M. That is roughly 80 times the estimated ~16.3K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.86 children per woman, fertility in Vietnam 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.