Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

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How many babies are born in Palestine?

144 thousand babies born in Palestine in 2026 — 0.11% of all births worldwide, and the 97th 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 Palestine through history

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Estimated annual births in Palestine, 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 Palestine'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
1800 ~7.96K ~166K 48.0 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~14K ~292K 48.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 45.7K 945K 48.4 UN estimate
2000 121K 3.15M 38.5 UN estimate
2024 145K 5.5M 26.5 UN projection
2026 144K 5.69M 25.4 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Palestine are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2016, at about 150K. That is roughly 18 times the estimated ~7.96K births a year in 1800.

At 3.13 children per woman, fertility in Palestine 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.