Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Africa · Northern Africa

How many babies are born in Egypt?

2.46 million babies born in Egypt in 2026 — 1.86% of all births worldwide, and the 12th 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 Egypt through history

1M 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Egypt, 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 Egypt'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 ~160K ~4M 40.8 Modelled estimate
1000 ~200K ~5M 39.9 Modelled estimate
1500 ~160K ~4M 40.7 Modelled estimate
1800 ~148K ~3.5M 42.2 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~417K ~9.94M 42.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 1.16M 21.1M 54.6 UN estimate
2000 2M 73.1M 27.4 UN estimate
2024 2.44M 117M 20.9 UN projection
2026 2.46M 120M 20.5 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Egypt are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2015, at about 2.81M. That is roughly 15 times the estimated ~163K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.68 children per woman, fertility in Egypt 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.