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Births and Deaths

Live counters for today, followed by annual figures for every country.

World 2026

Annual births
132,503,470
Annual deaths
63,637,310
Natural increase
68,866,160

Annual births

HistoricalUN projection (medium variant)

Annual deaths

HistoricalUN projection (medium variant)

Birth rate / Death rate (per 1,000)

Highest birth rates

  1. 1Central African Republic46.2
  2. 2Chad43.3
  3. 3Somalia42.3
  4. 4Niger41.4
  5. 5Democratic Republic of the Congo40.9
  6. 6Mali39.5
  7. 7Angola37.2
  8. 8Mozambique37.0
  9. 9Afghanistan35.0
  10. 10Tanzania34.8

Lowest birth rates

  1. 1South Korea4.7
  2. 2Hong Kong4.9
  3. 3Ukraine5.5
  4. 4Japan5.7
  5. 5Puerto Rico5.7
  6. 6Italy6.3
  7. 7Spain6.5
  8. 8Greece6.6
  9. 9Lithuania6.6
  10. 10China6.8

Highest death rates

  1. 1Bulgaria15.6
  2. 2Serbia14.9
  3. 3Latvia14.3
  4. 4Moldova13.8
  5. 5Ukraine13.6
  6. 6Bosnia and Herzegovina13.5
  7. 7Hungary13.4
  8. 8Japan13.3
  9. 9Croatia13.2
  10. 10Belarus13.1

Lowest death rates

  1. 1United Arab Emirates1.0
  2. 2Qatar1.1
  3. 3Kuwait1.5
  4. 4Oman1.9
  5. 5Bahrain2.2
  6. 6Saudi Arabia2.3
  7. 7Jordan3.1
  8. 8Iraq4.2
  9. 9Kyrgyzstan4.4
  10. 10Honduras4.5

Countries with more than 1.0M people. Latest available year per country.