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How many babies are born in Qatar?

30.8 thousand babies born in Qatar in 2026 — 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 143rd 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 Qatar through history

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Estimated annual births in Qatar, 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 Qatar'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 ~15 ~380 40.4 Modelled estimate
1000 ~22 ~530 40.4 Modelled estimate
1500 ~26 ~630 40.4 Modelled estimate
1800 ~676 ~14.1K 48.0 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~770 ~16.1K 48.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 1.17K 24.3K 48.2 UN estimate
2000 11.2K 645K 17.3 UN estimate
2024 29K 3.05M 9.5 UN projection
2026 30.8K 3.17M 9.7 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Qatar are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 30.9K. That is roughly 2012 times the estimated ~15 births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.69 children per woman, fertility in Qatar 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.