How many babies are born in Zimbabwe each year?

An estimated 505 thousand babies are born in Zimbabwe in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,383 a day and 0.38% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Zimbabwe?

Zimbabwe has an estimated 29.3 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 3.57 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Zimbabwe?

505 thousand babies born in Zimbabwe in 2026 — 0.38% of all births worldwide, and the 55th largest of any country. UN projection

1,383births per day
58per hour
1per minute
29.3births per 1,000 people
3.57children per woman
17.27 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 Zimbabwe through history

Estimated annual births in Zimbabwe, 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 Zimbabwe'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	~1.8K	~43K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~6.9K	~170K	40.7	Modelled estimate
1500	~15K	~340K	45.0	Modelled estimate
1800	~50.5K	~1.09M	46.5	Historical reconstruction
1900	~51.7K	~1.11M	46.5	Historical reconstruction
1950	140K	2.79M	50.3	UN estimate
2000	430K	11.9M	36.1	UN estimate
2024	497K	16.6M	29.9	UN projection
2026	505K	17.3M	29.3	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Zimbabwe are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2012, at about 522K. That is roughly 282 times the estimated ~1.79K births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.57 children per woman, fertility in Zimbabwe 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.