How many babies are born in Saudi Arabia each year?

An estimated 568 thousand babies are born in Saudi Arabia in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,555 a day and 0.43% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia has an estimated 16.1 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 2.27 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Saudi Arabia?

568 thousand babies born in Saudi Arabia in 2026 — 0.43% of all births worldwide, and the 49th largest of any country. UN projection

1,555births per day
65per hour
1per minute
16.1births per 1,000 people
2.27children per woman
35.17 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 Saudi Arabia through history

Estimated annual births in Saudi Arabia, 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 Saudi Arabia'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	~42K	~1M	41.6	Modelled estimate
1000	~79K	~2M	39.7	Modelled estimate
1500	~81K	~2M	40.6	Modelled estimate
1800	~94.5K	~2M	47.3	Historical reconstruction
1900	~100K	~2.12M	47.3	Historical reconstruction
1950	86.7K	1.7M	50.9	UN estimate
2000	445K	16.2M	27.5	UN estimate
2024	560K	34M	16.5	UN projection
2026	568K	35.2M	16.1	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Saudi Arabia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2017, at about 610K. That is roughly 14 times the estimated ~41.6K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.27 children per woman, fertility in Saudi Arabia 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.