Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Asia · South-Eastern Asia

How many babies are born in Cambodia?

352 thousand babies born in Cambodia in 2026 — 0.27% of all births worldwide, and the 67th largest of any country. UN projection

Plus or minus about 6%. These years have not happened yet or have not been counted yet. They are the medium variant of the UN's projection, not a record of births that took place.

Births in Cambodia through history

100K 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Cambodia, 0 CE to 2026, on a logarithmic scale. The shaded band on the left marks the years where births are modelled rather than recorded. The marker sits on 2026.
Every figure refers to the area inside Cambodia's present-day borders. Before 1800 the state did not exist in its current form — see how borders are handled.
Year Estimated births Population Per 1,000 Evidence
1 CE ~20K ~500K 40.8 Modelled estimate
1000 ~41K ~1000K 40.8 Modelled estimate
1500 ~61K ~1.5M 40.9 Modelled estimate
1800 ~99.9K ~2.09M 47.8 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~136K ~2.84M 47.8 Historical reconstruction
1950 204K 4.38M 46.6 UN estimate
2000 355K 12.5M 28.5 UN estimate
2024 358K 17.6M 20.3 UN projection
2026 352K 18.1M 19.5 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Cambodia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1994, at about 391K. That is roughly 17 times the estimated ~20.4K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.49 children per woman, fertility in Cambodia is above the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

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Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium variant. Earlier years come from the UN's estimates (1950 onward), Gapminder's reconstructions (1800–1949) and a model applied to HYDE population estimates (before 1800). The full chain is set out in the methodology, and every source is listed on the sources page.