Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Asia · Western Asia

How many babies are born in Kuwait?

49.4 thousand babies born in Kuwait in 2026 — 0.04% of all births worldwide, and the 135th 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 Kuwait through history

10K 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Kuwait, 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 Kuwait'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 ~2.1K ~53K 40.4 Modelled estimate
1000 ~2.8K ~69K 40.0 Modelled estimate
1500 ~2.9K ~69K 42.5 Modelled estimate
1800 ~3.85K ~81.3K 47.3 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~4.67K ~98.8K 47.3 Historical reconstruction
1950 6.83K 154K 44.3 UN estimate
2000 43.8K 1.95M 22.4 UN estimate
2024 48.1K 4.93M 9.8 UN projection
2026 49.4K 5.1M 9.7 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Kuwait are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2014, at about 61.3K. That is roughly 23 times the estimated ~2.12K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.49 children per woman, fertility in Kuwait is below 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.