Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

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How many babies are born in Libya?

119 thousand babies born in Libya in 2026 — 0.09% of all births worldwide, and the 103rd 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 Libya through history

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Estimated annual births in Libya, 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 Libya'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 ~16K ~400K 41.2 Modelled estimate
1000 ~19K ~500K 38.3 Modelled estimate
1500 ~21K ~500K 41.5 Modelled estimate
1800 ~11.4K ~230K 49.4 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~25.4K ~514K 49.4 Historical reconstruction
1950 55.6K 1.13M 49.1 UN estimate
2000 115K 5.31M 21.7 UN estimate
2024 122K 7.38M 16.5 UN projection
2026 119K 7.54M 15.8 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Libya are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2011, at about 158K. That is roughly 7.2 times the estimated ~16.5K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.21 children per woman, fertility in Libya 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.