How many babies are born in Israel each year?

An estimated 172 thousand babies are born in Israel in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 471 a day and 0.13% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Israel?

Israel has an estimated 17.8 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.73 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Israel?

172 thousand babies born in Israel in 2026 — 0.13% of all births worldwide, and the 91st largest of any country. UN projection

471births per day
20per hour
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17.8births per 1,000 people
2.73children per woman
9.65 millionpopulation

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 Israel through history

Estimated annual births in Israel, 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 Israel'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	~450K	43.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~13K	~330K	39.7	Modelled estimate
1500	~13K	~320K	41.0	Modelled estimate
1800	~8.77K	~210K	41.8	Historical reconstruction
1900	~12.1K	~359K	33.6	Historical reconstruction
1950	47.5K	1.29M	36.9	UN estimate
2000	131K	6.11M	21.5	UN estimate
2024	172K	9.39M	18.3	UN projection
2026	172K	9.65M	17.8	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Israel are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2021, at about 178K. That is roughly 8.8 times the estimated ~19.6K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.73 children per woman, fertility in Israel 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.