How many babies are born in Somalia each year?

An estimated 836 thousand babies are born in Somalia in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 2,290 a day and 0.63% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Somalia?

Somalia has an estimated 41.2 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 5.80 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Somalia?

836 thousand babies born in Somalia in 2026 — 0.63% of all births worldwide, and the 37th largest of any country. UN projection

2,290births per day
95per hour
2per minute
41.2births per 1,000 people
5.80children per woman
20.31 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 Somalia through history

Estimated annual births in Somalia, 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 Somalia'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	~8.2K	~200K	40.7	Modelled estimate
1000	~16K	~390K	41.2	Modelled estimate
1500	~32K	~780K	40.9	Modelled estimate
1800	~46.8K	~989K	47.3	Historical reconstruction
1900	~71.9K	~1.52M	47.3	Historical reconstruction
1950	112K	2.21M	50.5	UN estimate
2000	446K	8.84M	50.4	UN estimate
2024	805K	19M	42.4	UN projection
2026	836K	20.3M	41.2	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Somalia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 836K. That is roughly 103 times the estimated ~8.15K births a year in 1 CE.

At 5.80 children per woman, fertility in Somalia 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.