Do you know how fast babies are born? Every 4 minutes, 1000 babies are born around the world. When you calculate how many babies are born in a whole day, it is a really huge number. But in which countries are children born most often?
Individual countries of birth of the next 1000 children
Infographic below showing which countries are most likely to welcome the next 1,000 babies based on population and birth rates as of 2022 estimates. The author of this work is Pratap Vardhan (Stats of India), he used data from the CIA World Factbook.
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India, which has 1.4 billion inhabitants, ranks first in the number of births. Out of every 1000 children born, 172 are born in India. Unfortunately, most children are born in countries with the greatest poverty and the lowest level of education. Below you can see a detailed comparison of when 1000 children will be born in the world and what countries they will come from.
Place | Region | Births per 1k global babies |
India | Asia | 171.62 |
China | Asia | 102.84 |
Nigeria | Africa | 56.50 |
Pakistan | Asia | 47.23 |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Africa | 31.90 |
Indonesia | Asia | 31.20 |
United States | Americas | 30.42 |
Ethiopia | Africa | 25.44 |
Brazil | Americas | 22.27 |
Bangladesh | Asia | 21.52 |
Philippines | Asia | 18.75 |
Egypt | Africa | 16.98 |
Tanzania | Africa | 15.61 |
Uganda | Africa | 13.89 |
Mexico | Americas | 12.85 |
Vietnam | Asia | 11.96 |
Sudan | Africa | 11.79 |
Kenya | Africa | 10.82 |
Angola | Africa | 10.68 |
Afghanistan | Asia | 9.98 |
Russia | Europe | 9.85 |
Iran | Asia | 9.73 |
Mozambique | Africa | 8.72 |
Turkey | Asia | 8.71 |
Niger | Africa | 8.46 |
South Africa | Africa | 7.84 |
Cameroon | Africa | 7.65 |
Iraq | Asia | 7.34 |
Ghana | Africa | 6.94 |
Myanmar | Asia | 6.90 |
Japan | Asia | 6.34 |
Mali | Africa | 6.25 |
Algeria | Africa | 6.01 |
Cote d’Ivoire | Africa | 5.97 |
Madagascar | Africa | 5.93 |
France | Europe | 5.85 |
Germany | Europe | 5.62 |
Yemen | Asia | 5.61 |
Colombia | Americas | 5.48 |
Burkina Faso | Africa | 5.41 |
United Kingdom | Europe | 5.37 |
Chad | Africa | 5.34 |
Argentina | Americas | 5.29 |
Thailand | Asia | 5.19 |
Zambia | Africa | 5.03 |
Morocco | Africa | 4.70 |
Malawi | Africa | 4.27 |
Benin | Africa | 4.16 |
Senegal | Africa | 4.15 |
Peru | Americas | 04.08 |
Source & credit: Pratap Vardhan / https://statsofindia.in/