List_of_countries_by_number_of_births References

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

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]

Rank	Country	Number of births (2021)
1	India	23,114,000
2	China	10,881,567
3	Nigeria	7,923,294
4	Pakistan	6,374,741
5	Indonesia	4,496,383
6	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4,034,953
7	Ethiopia	3,895,734
8	United States	3,722,822
9	Bangladesh	3,019,672
10	Brazil	2,760,958
11	Philippines	2,485,008
12	Egypt	2,465,005
13	Tanzania	2,303,114
14	Mexico	1,882,362
15	Uganda	1,686,795
16	Sudan	1,534,332
17	Kenya	1,468,358
18	Vietnam	1,462,623
19	Afghanistan	1,440,941
20	Russia	1,397,456
21	Angola	1,338,792
22	Turkey	1,244,782
23	Iran	1,204,105
24	Iraq	1,192,345
25	South Africa	1,176,955
26	Mozambique	1,174,346
27	Niger	1,144,371
28	Yemen	1,008,936
29	Algeria	950,888
30	Cameroon	950,546
31	Ivory Coast	932,943
32	Myanmar	920,395
33	Mali	912,901
34	Ghana	904,679
35	Madagascar	895,045
36	Japan	818,509
37	Uzbekistan	802,875
38	Burkina Faso	785,817
39	Germany	763,168
40	Chad	744,834
41	Somalia	743,932
42	Colombia	730,203
43	France	677,303
44	United Kingdom	677,219
45	Zambia	672,000
46	Malawi	653,703
47	Morocco	650,892
48	Thailand	644,325
49	Argentina	629,391
50	Saudi Arabia	629,339
51	Nepal	609,790
52	Peru	593,523
53	Senegal	549,984
54	Malaysia	511,313
55	Zimbabwe	488,807
56	Benin	475,832
57	Guinea	465,954
58	Venezuela	451,855
59	Burundi	437,599
60	Syria	426,856
61	Kazakhstan	413,483
62	Italy	410,487
63	Rwanda	403,681
64	Canada	373,728
65	Guatemala	372,146
66	Poland	363,427
67	Spain	357,652
68	North Korea	343,885
69	Cambodia	320,934
70	South Sudan	313,347
71	Sri Lanka	305,877
72	Ecuador	298,989
73	Australia	298,496
74	South Korea	260,562
75	Togo	275,435
76	Ukraine	336,096
77	Haiti	269,377
78	Sierra Leone	264,106
79	Bolivia	263,820
80	Tajikistan	260,838
81	Papua New Guinea	253,720
82	Jordan	244,557
83	Central African Republic	234,821
84	Chile	229,116
85	Honduras	216,645
86	Dominican Republic	205,050
87	Tunisia	197,396
88	Romania	195,366
89	Taiwan	185,885
90	Netherlands	180,273
91	Republic of the Congo	179,193
92	Israel	174,335
93	Laos	163,261
94	Liberia	162,685
95	Kyrgyzstan	157,661
96	Mauritania	153,242
97	Palestine	145,128
98	Nicaragua	140,589
99	Paraguay	138,365
100	Turkmenistan	136,968
101	Azerbaijan	127,085
102	Libya	120,072
103	Belgium	116,448
104	Sweden	113,322
105	Czech Republic	103,948
106	Eritrea	103,861
107	El Salvador	101,405
108	Cuba	100,445
109	United Arab Emirates	96,536
110	Hungary	91,895
111	Belarus	88,853
112	Gambia	87,840
113	Switzerland	87,086
114	Austria	84,647
115	Lebanon	84,450
116	Oman	83,496
117	Portugal	80,480
118	Greece	79,072
119	Panama	76,933
120	Mongolia	71,668
121	Namibia	69,486
122	Serbia	67,609
123	Guinea-Bissau	64,086
124	New Zealand	63,557
125	Gabon	63,525
126	Denmark	63,148
127	Costa Rica	61,176
128	Botswana	60,999
129	Lesotho	59,581
130	Ireland	58,563
131	Bulgaria	58,112
132	Slovakia	54,351
133	Norway	53,868
134	Georgia	50,430
135	Equatorial Guinea	49,749
136	Finland	46,891
137	Kuwait	44,412
138	Hong Kong	42,908
139	Singapore	42,215
140	Moldova	38,146
141	Uruguay	35,892
142	Croatia	34,733
143	Armenia	33,700
144	Jamaica	33,150
145	Timor-Leste	32,976
146	Albania	29,289
147	Eswatini	28,831
148	Bosnia and Herzegovina	27,646
149	Lithuania	26,862
150	Puerto Rico	26,548
151	Qatar	26,529
152	Djibouti	24,541
153	Comoros	24,180
154	Solomon Islands	21,098
155	North Macedonia	20,114
156	Slovenia	19,147
157	Kosovo	18,604
158	Fiji	17,943
159	Trinidad and Tobago	17,814
160	Bahrain	17,501
161	Latvia	17,024
162	Guyana	16,375
163	Réunion	14,071
164	Estonia	13,639
165	Mauritius	13,437
166	Cyprus	12,820
167	Suriname	11,133
168	Mayotte	10,641
169	Cape Verde	9,976
170	Bhutan	9,703
171	Western Sahara	9,461
172	Vanuatu	9,398
173	French Guiana	7,503
174	Maldives	7,337
175	Belize	7,186
176	Montenegro	6,965
177	Macau	6,921
178	Luxembourg	6,589
179	São Tomé and Príncipe	6,318
180	Brunei	6,147
181	Samoa	5,975
182	Bahamas	4,666
183	Malta	4,664
184	Iceland	4,572
185	Guadeloupe	4,467
186	New Caledonia	4,158
187	French Polynesia	3,881
188	Martinique	3,524
189	Kiribati	3,510
190	Barbados	3,046
191	Guam	2,795
192	Tonga	2,454
193	Federated States of Micronesia	2,357
194	Curaçao	2,167
195	Saint Lucia	2,064
196	Grenada	1,990
197	Seychelles	1,642
198	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,348
199	United States Virgin Islands	1,147
200	Jersey	1,134
201	Antigua and Barbuda	1,129
202	Dominica	965
203	Marshall Islands	829
204	Faroe Islands	814
205	Greenland	810
206	American Samoa	788
207	Aruba	764
208	Isle of Man	717
209	Cayman Islands	679
210	Guernsey	613
211	Northern Mariana Islands	608
212	Saint Kitts and Nevis	578
213	Andorra	567
214	Turks and Caicos Islands	559
215	Bermuda	497
216	Saint Martin	488
217	Liechtenstein	358
218	Gibraltar	350
219	Nauru	346
220	Sint Maarten	336
221	Monaco	322
222	Caribbean Netherlands	286
223	Cook Islands	277
224	Palau	273
225	Tuvalu	263
226	British Virgin Islands	237
227	San Marino	202
228	Anguilla	150
229	Wallis and Futuna	138
230	Saint Barthélemy	88
231	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	45
232	Falkland Islands	42
233	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	41
234	Montserrat	40
235	Tokelau	35
236	Niue	27