Share of a region's people, and share of its babies — country by country. A younger population punches above its weight; an older one accounts for fewer births than its size suggests.
Region
Share of residents and of births · 2023
Oceania
Where the births are
birthrate.io
People
46.5M
46,457,577 residents
Births
681.5K
681,471 births · 2023
Share of residents · 2025
Total 46.5M
Share of births · 2023
Total 681.5K
Population: World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL). Births: UN World Population Prospects annual birth counts (via Our World in Data), latest non-projected year — not population × crude birth rate. Oceania here is sovereign states only, not Hawaii or Western New Guinea.
birthrate.io/population/shares?region=oceania
Younger age structures punch above their population share.
Lower fertility or older age structure — fewer births than their population share.
Δ is birth share minus population share, in percentage points.
| Country | People | Pop % | Births | Birth % | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 27.6M | 59.4 | 304.3K | 44.7 | -14.8 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10.8M | 23.2 | 255.3K | 37.5 | +14.3 |
| New Zealand | 5.3M | 11.5 | 59.2K | 8.7 | -2.8 |
| Fiji | 933.2K | 2.0 | 16.6K | 2.4 | +0.4 |
| Solomon Islands | 838.6K | 1.8 | 21.5K | 3.2 | +1.4 |
| Vanuatu | 335.2K | 0.7 | 9K | 1.3 | +0.6 |
| Samoa | 219.3K | 0.5 | 5.5K | 0.8 | +0.3 |
| Kiribati | 136.5K | 0.3 | 3.4K | 0.5 | +0.2 |
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 113.7K | 0.2 | 2.5K | 0.4 | +0.1 |
| Tonga | 103.7K | 0.2 | 2.4K | 0.4 | +0.1 |
| Marshall Islands | 36.3K | 0.1 | 821 | 0.1 | +0.0 |
| Palau | 17.7K | 0.0 | 193 | 0.0 | -0.0 |
| Naoero | 12K | 0.0 | 303 | 0.0 | +0.0 |
| Tuvalu | 9.5K | 0.0 | 226 | 0.0 | +0.0 |