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 2022 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2021.

List of countries by number of births[edit]

Countries and dependent territories by the estimated number of births in 2021 according to the World Population Prospects 2022 of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.^[1]

Country	Number of births (2021)
India	23,114,000
China	10,881,567
Nigeria	7,923,294
Pakistan	6,374,741
Indonesia	4,496,383
Democratic Republic of the Congo	4,034,953
Ethiopia	3,895,734
United States	3,722,822
Bangladesh	3,019,672
Brazil	2,760,958
Philippines	2,364,739
Egypt	2,465,005
Tanzania	2,303,114
Mexico	1,882,362
Uganda	1,686,795
Sudan	1,534,332
Kenya	1,468,358
Vietnam	1,462,623
Afghanistan	1,440,941
Russia	1,397,456
Angola	1,338,792
Turkey	1,244,782
Iran	1,204,105
Iraq	1,192,345
South Africa	1,176,955
Mozambique	1,174,346
Niger	1,144,371
Yemen	1,008,936
Algeria	950,888
Cameroon	950,546
Ivory Coast	932,943
Myanmar	920,395
Mali	912,901
Ghana	904,679
Madagascar	895,045
Japan	818,509
Uzbekistan	802,875
Burkina Faso	785,817
Germany	763,168
Chad	744,834
Somalia	743,932
Colombia	730,203
France	677,303
United Kingdom	677,219
Zambia	672,000
Malawi	653,703
Morocco	650,892
Thailand	644,325
Argentina	629,391
Saudi Arabia	629,339
Nepal	609,790
Peru	593,523
Senegal	549,984
Malaysia	511,313
Zimbabwe	488,807
Benin	475,832
Guinea	465,954
Venezuela	451,855
Burundi	437,599
Syria	426,856
Kazakhstan	413,483
Italy	410,487
Rwanda	403,681
Canada	373,728
Guatemala	372,146
Poland	363,427
Spain	357,652
North Korea	343,885
Ukraine	336,096
Cambodia	320,934
South Sudan	313,347
Sri Lanka	305,877
Ecuador	298,989
Australia	298,496
South Korea	260,562
Togo	275,435
Haiti	269,377
Sierra Leone	264,106
Bolivia	263,820
Tajikistan	260,838
Papua New Guinea	253,720
Jordan	244,557
Central African Republic	234,821
Chile	229,116
Honduras	216,645
Dominican Republic	205,050
Tunisia	197,396
Romania	195,366
Taiwan	185,885
Netherlands	180,273
Republic of the Congo	179,193
Israel	174,335
Laos	163,261
Liberia	162,685
Kyrgyzstan	157,661
Mauritania	153,242
Palestine	145,128
Nicaragua	140,589
Paraguay	138,365
Turkmenistan	136,968
Azerbaijan	127,085
Libya	120,072
Belgium	116,448
Sweden	113,322
Czech Republic	103,948
Eritrea	103,861
El Salvador	101,405
Cuba	100,445
United Arab Emirates	96,536
Hungary	91,895
Belarus	88,853
Gambia	87,840
Switzerland	87,086
Austria	84,647
Lebanon	84,450
Oman	83,496
Portugal	80,480
Greece	79,072
Panama	76,933
Mongolia	71,668
Namibia	69,486
Serbia	67,609
Guinea-Bissau	64,086
New Zealand	63,557
Gabon	63,525
Denmark	63,148
Costa Rica	61,176
Botswana	60,999
Lesotho	59,581
Ireland	58,563
Bulgaria	58,112
Slovakia	54,351
Norway	53,868
Georgia	50,430
Equatorial Guinea	49,749
Finland	46,891
Kuwait	44,412
Hong Kong	42,908
Singapore	42,215
Moldova	38,146
Uruguay	35,892
Croatia	34,733
Armenia	33,700
Jamaica	33,150
Timor-Leste	32,976
Albania	29,289
Eswatini	28,831
Bosnia and Herzegovina	27,646
Lithuania	26,862
Puerto Rico	26,548
Qatar	26,529
Djibouti	24,541
Comoros	24,180
Solomon Islands	21,098
North Macedonia	20,114
Slovenia	19,147
Kosovo	18,604
Fiji	17,943
Trinidad and Tobago	17,814
Bahrain	17,501
Latvia	17,024
Guyana	16,375
Réunion	14,071
Estonia	13,639
Mauritius	13,437
Cyprus	12,820
Suriname	11,133
Mayotte	10,641
Cape Verde	9,976
Bhutan	9,703
Western Sahara	9,461
Vanuatu	9,398
French Guiana	7,503
Maldives	7,337
Belize	7,186
Montenegro	6,965
Macau	6,921
Luxembourg	6,589
São Tomé and Príncipe	6,318
Brunei	6,147
Samoa	5,975
Bahamas	4,666
Malta	4,664
Iceland	4,572
Guadeloupe	4,467
New Caledonia	4,158
French Polynesia	3,881
Martinique	3,524
Kiribati	3,510
Barbados	3,046
Guam	2,795
Tonga	2,454
Federated States of Micronesia	2,357
Curaçao	2,167
Saint Lucia	2,064
Grenada	1,990
Seychelles	1,642
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,348
United States Virgin Islands	1,147
Jersey	1,134
Antigua and Barbuda	1,129
Dominica	965
Marshall Islands	829
Faroe Islands	814
Greenland	810
American Samoa	788
Aruba	764
Isle of Man	717
Cayman Islands	679
Guernsey	613
Northern Mariana Islands	608
Saint Kitts and Nevis	578
Andorra	567
Turks and Caicos Islands	559
Bermuda	497
Saint Martin	488
Liechtenstein	358
Gibraltar	350
Nauru	346
Sint Maarten	336
Monaco	322
Caribbean Netherlands	286
Cook Islands	277
Palau	273
Tuvalu	263
British Virgin Islands	237
San Marino	202
Anguilla	150
Wallis and Futuna	138
Saint Barthélemy	88
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	45
Falkland Islands	42
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	41
Montserrat	40
Tokelau	35
Niue	27