Mapped: Global Births by Country in 2025

Ranked: The Number of Births by Country in 2025

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How does the number of births by country today highlight shifting global demographic patterns?

This year, India is expected to record 23.1 million births, more than double the number in China. In contrast, Europe’s total births will reach just 6.3 million, illustrating the continent’s deepening fertility crisis.

This graphic shows the projected number of babies born by country, based on data from the UN’s World Population Prospects 2024 via Our World in Data.

A Closer Look at the Number of Births by Country

Below, we show the countries driving global births in 2025:

Rank	Country	Estimated Number of Births 2025
1	India	23,073,268
2	China	8,709,352
3	Nigeria	7,640,590
4	Pakistan	6,909,545
5	Democratic Republic of Congo	4,559,718
6	Indonesia	4,440,838
7	Ethiopia	4,176,742
8	United States	3,663,798
9	Bangladesh	3,441,259
10	Brazil	2,528,724
11	Egypt	2,450,027
12	Tanzania	2,419,272
13	Mexico	2,003,673
14	Philippines	1,845,745
15	Uganda	1,734,565
16	Sudan	1,656,421
17	Kenya	1,540,813
18	Afghanistan	1,507,838
19	Angola	1,429,803
20	Yemen	1,401,358
21	Vietnam	1,328,422
22	Mozambique	1,304,409
23	Russia	1,241,824
24	Iraq	1,187,570
25	South Africa	1,175,749
26	Niger	1,138,168
27	Iran	1,125,230
28	Turkey	1,053,303
29	Madagascar	1,023,320
30	Côte d’Ivoire	1,017,551
31	Mali	987,043
32	Cameroon	980,661
33	Uzbekistan	911,213
34	Chad	907,325
35	Ghana	897,874
36	Myanmar	888,309
37	Algeria	855,432
38	Somalia	822,215
39	Japan	748,163
40	Burkina Faso	741,692
41	Zambia	708,934
42	Germany	707,972
43	Colombia	692,792
44	Malawi	685,330
45	United Kingdom	680,076
46	France	634,528
47	Morocco	619,057
48	Syria	601,433
49	Thailand	572,371
50	Saudi Arabia	564,878
51	Nepal	551,647
52	Senegal	547,717
53	Peru	535,695
54	Argentina	508,067
55	Zimbabwe	500,731
56	Guinea	494,546
57	Benin	489,564
58	Burundi	468,720
59	Malaysia	439,747
60	Venezuela	436,134
61	Rwanda	404,109
62	Kazakhstan	395,033
63	Italy	382,523
64	Guatemala	380,110
65	Canada	361,103
66	South Sudan	357,711
67	Cambodia	354,622
68	North Korea	334,881
69	Spain	330,044
70	Sri Lanka	318,489
71	Australia	304,326
72	Poland	297,389
73	Togo	296,051
74	Ecuador	267,665
75	Tajikistan	264,517
76	Bolivia	261,486
77	Sierra Leone	260,288
78	Haiti	257,433
79	Papua New Guinea	256,974
80	Central African Republic	250,088
81	South Korea	245,858
82	Honduras	234,594
83	Jordan	232,046
84	Ukraine	220,203
85	Dominican Republic	199,014
86	Congo	195,536
87	Mauritania	178,900
88	Romania	178,474
89	Netherlands	174,210
90	Liberia	173,467
91	Israel	171,390
92	Chile	170,383
93	Laos	161,375
94	Tunisia	160,508
95	Turkmenistan	152,636
96	Kyrgyzstan	149,483
97	Palestine	144,890
98	Paraguay	135,786
99	Nicaragua	131,804
100	Taiwan	125,322
101	Libya	120,174
102	Azerbaijan	120,097
103	United Arab Emirates	114,046
104	Eritrea	103,276
105	Belgium	101,192
106	El Salvador	97,874
107	Sweden	97,002
108	Cuba	93,499
109	Lebanon	92,538
110	Oman	90,129
111	Czechia	86,926
112	Portugal	85,660
113	Hungary	84,300
114	Gambia	82,555
115	Switzerland	81,819
116	Namibia	78,688
117	Austria	75,378
118	Panama	71,610
119	Gabon	69,096
120	Greece	68,148
121	Guinea-Bissau	65,468
122	Belarus	62,332
123	Mongolia	61,431
124	Botswana	61,186
125	Bulgaria	60,380
126	Denmark	59,225
127	New Zealand	58,491
128	Serbia	58,142
129	Equatorial Guinea	57,351
130	Lesotho	55,434
131	Norway	52,978
132	Ireland	52,616
133	Costa Rica	50,630
134	Singapore	49,843
135	Slovakia	49,631
136	Kuwait	48,755
137	Finland	43,926
138	Georgia	42,089
139	Armenia	34,934
140	Uruguay	32,993
141	Jamaica	31,837
142	Moldova	31,009
143	Croatia	30,995
144	East Timor	30,643
145	Qatar	29,934
146	Eswatini	29,208
147	Albania	27,433
148	Comoros	24,525
149	Djibouti	24,481
150	Bosnia and Herzegovina	24,258
151	Solomon Islands	22,160
152	Lithuania	22,099
153	Bahrain	19,599
154	Kosovo	19,558
155	Puerto Rico	19,087
156	Slovenia	17,209
157	Fiji	16,446
158	North Macedonia	16,313
159	Guyana	16,301
160	Trinidad and Tobago	15,536
161	Cyprus	13,952
162	Latvia	13,706
163	Mauritius	11,408
164	Suriname	10,856
165	Estonia	10,605
166	Bhutan	9,836
167	Vanuatu	9,119
168	Western Sahara	9,032
169	French Guiana	7,594
170	Belize	7,518
171	Montenegro	6,969
172	Luxembourg	6,948
173	Sao Tome and Principe	6,688
174	Cape Verde	6,364
175	Brunei	6,062
176	Maldives	5,403
177	Samoa	5,400
178	Iceland	4,367
179	Bahamas	4,300
180	Malta	4,231
181	New Caledonia	4,068
182	Kiribati	3,385
183	Barbados	3,121
184	Micronesia	2,517
185	Tonga	2,365
186	Saint Lucia	1,985
187	Seychelles	1,772
188	Grenada	1,319
189	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,179
190	Antigua and Barbuda	1,091
191	Greenland	738
192	Marshall Islands	715
193	Dominica	713
194	Andorra	568
195	Saint Kitts and Nevis	538
196	Liechtenstein	371
197	Monaco	369
198	Nauru	289
199	Tuvalu	201
200	San Marino	194
201	Palau	186

Even as fertility rates have fallen from around 5 children per woman in 1970, on average, to about 2 in 2025, India is expected to account for 17% of global births this year.

Yet across the world’s most populous country, fertility rates vary widely by region. Across roughly 31 states, fertility rates are below replacement level, prompting pronatalist policies.

China ranks second, with an estimated 8.7 million births in 2025. Today, it has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, averaging 1 birth per woman—down from more than 6 in 1970.

As we can see, Nigeria follows next with 7.6 million births, a figure set to rise to 8.1 million by 2050. Over this same period, it is expected to overtake the U.S. and become the world’s third most populous country.

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• Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-births-by-country-in-2025/