List of countries by number of births

The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of births. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.

List of countries by number of births

Countries and dependent territories by the estimated number of births in 2023 according to the World Population Prospects 2024 of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.^[1]

Country	Number of births (2023)
India	23,219,489
China	8,899,881
Nigeria	7,509,758
Pakistan	6,882,058
Indonesia	4,482,359
Democratic Republic of the Congo	4,369,683
Ethiopia	4,105,685
United States	3,657,476
Bangladesh	3,489,953
Brazil	2,601,670
Egypt	2,405,717
Tanzania	2,346,391
Mexico	2,037,689
Philippines	1,840,477
Uganda	1,712,750
Sudan	1,682,049
Kenya	1,499,998
Afghanistan	1,469,029
Vietnam	1,387,961
Yemen	1,386,914
Angola	1,381,370
Russia	1,297,207
Mozambique	1,260,855
South Africa	1,186,793
Iran	1,173,463
Iraq	1,159,682
Niger	1,095,892
Turkey	1,072,014
Madagascar	1,001,244
Ivory Coast	997,001
Cameroon	957,392
Mali	951,445
Uzbekistan	943,547
Algeria	905,981
Myanmar	903,822
Ghana	888,947
Chad	819,054
Somalia	788,763
Japan	749,884
Burkina Faso	728,612
Germany	719,249
Colombia	705,009
United Kingdom	688,388
Zambia	685,565
Malawi	662,289
France	638,891
Morocco	629,832
Thailand	591,200
Nepal	574,297
Saudi Arabia	546,038
Peru	539,623
Senegal	531,890
Syria	521,601
Argentina	503,823
Zimbabwe	496,917
Guinea	487,595
Benin	478,062
Burundi	460,882
Malaysia	435,989
Venezuela	426,984
Kazakhstan	409,417
Rwanda	395,578
Italy	384,627
Guatemala	377,167
Cambodia	361,586
Canada	356,745
North Korea	342,038
Spain	336,821
South Sudan	328,308
Sri Lanka	324,102
Poland	317,916
Australia	304,340
Togo	289,759
Tajikistan	271,420
Ecuador	270,300
Bolivia	260,151
Sierra Leone	258,903
Haiti	258,348
Papua New Guinea	255,331
Central African Republic	238,858
South Korea	236,394
Jordan	235,776
Honduras	233,793
Ukraine	212,231
Dominican Republic	203,183
Republic of the Congo	189,365
Romania	183,623
Chile	176,196
Mauritania	172,885
Israel	172,312
Liberia	170,065
Netherlands	167,842
Tunisia	167,729
Laos	163,043
Turkmenistan	160,100
Kyrgyzstan	150,759
Palestine	146,384
Paraguay	136,778
Taiwan	132,404
Nicaragua	132,214
Azerbaijan	125,136
Libya	124,371
United Arab Emirates	104,015
Belgium	101,686
El Salvador	99,428
Eritrea	99,058
Sweden	97,915
Cuba	95,938
Lebanon	93,205
Czech Republic	91,845
Portugal	86,646
Hungary	85,373
Oman	85,065
Switzerland	83,702
Gambia	82,092
Austria	77,054
Namibia	76,715
Greece	73,661
Panama	71,469
Gabon	68,745
Belarus	65,050
Mongolia	65,019
Guinea-Bissau	64,679
Bulgaria	62,645
Botswana	61,294
Serbia	59,840
New Zealand	59,236
Denmark	57,810
Lesotho	55,728
Equatorial Guinea	54,694
Ireland	53,268
Slovakia	52,271
Costa Rica	51,969
Norway	51,545
Kuwait	49,342
Singapore	47,472
Georgia	43,765
Finland	43,556
Hong Kong	41,294
Armenia	34,668
Uruguay	33,443
Jamaica	33,007
Moldova	32,986
Croatia	31,446
Timor-Leste	30,561
Eswatini	29,622
Qatar	29,516
Albania	28,803
Bosnia and Herzegovina	24,569
Comoros	24,366
Djibouti	23,946
Solomon Islands	21,548
Lithuania	21,434
Kosovo	20,514
Bahrain	19,558
Puerto Rico	18,851
Slovenia	17,902
North Macedonia	16,878
Guyana	16,764
Fiji	16,631
Trinidad and Tobago	16,094
Cyprus	14,524
Latvia	14,250
Réunion	12,003
Mauritius	11,804
Mayotte	11,186
Estonia	11,036
Suriname	10,879
Bhutan	9,958
Vanuatu	8,988
Western Sahara	8,987
French Guiana	7,707
Belize	7,410
Montenegro	6,981
Luxembourg	6,946
São Tomé and Príncipe	6,507
Cape Verde	6,440
Brunei	6,237
Maldives	5,795
Samoa	5,503
Macau	4,515
Iceland	4,347
Bahamas	4,335
Guadeloupe	4,233
Malta	4,213
New Caledonia	4,134
Martinique	3,728
Kiribati	3,421
Barbados	3,155
French Polynesia	3,066
Guam	2,941
Federated States of Micronesia	2,512
Tonga	2,418
Saint Lucia	2,019
Seychelles	1,744
Curaçao	1,394
Grenada	1,371
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,232
Antigua and Barbuda	1,106
Aruba	1,020
United States Virgin Islands	959
Cayman Islands	865
Jersey	853
Marshall Islands	821
Greenland	789
Dominica	738
American Samoa	731
Isle of Man	702
Faroe Islands	690
Northern Mariana Islands	583
Andorra	555
Saint Kitts and Nevis	549
Bermuda	521
Guernsey	521
Turks and Caicos Islands	496
Saint Martin	470
Gibraltar	464
Sint Maarten	390
Liechtenstein	371
Monaco	368
British Virgin Islands	325
Nauru	303
Caribbean Netherlands	280
Tuvalu	226
San Marino	200
Palau	193
Cook Islands	178
Anguilla	130
Wallis and Futuna	98
Saint Barthélemy	53
Tokelau	47
Falkland Islands	39
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	39
Montserrat	39
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	30
Niue	25
Vatican City	2