Afghanistan: more babies born than in Russia
births in 2023
Russia has 3.5 times as many people (145M against 41.5M), yet more babies were born here in 2023: 1.47M against 1.26M. It overtook Russia in births in 2021.
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Live births in a calendar year, for two countries: one has far fewer people yet more babies.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- Afghanistan: Births thousand births per year
384 (1950) → 1,469 (2023)
- Russia: Births thousand births per year
2,885 (1950) → 1,264 (2023)
UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024 → Rosstat: Rozhdaemost, smertnost i estestvenny prirost (demo21_2023.xlsx); TFR: Russian Statistical Yearbook 2025, table 4.14
- Afghanistan: Population thousand persons, 1 July
41,455 (2023)
- Russia: Population thousand persons, 1 July
145,440 (2023)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024) and national statistics where available; population on 1 July of the same year.
A question for this picture
How many of these children will look for work in 20 years, and where?