Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

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How many babies are born in Syria?

625 thousand babies born in Syria in 2026 — 0.47% of all births worldwide, and the 47th 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 Syria through history

100K 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Syria, 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 Syria'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 ~67K ~1.6M 43.2 Modelled estimate
1000 ~39K ~1.1M 36.6 Modelled estimate
1500 ~44K ~1.1M 41.0 Modelled estimate
1800 ~59K ~1.25M 47.2 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~83.4K ~1.77M 47.2 Historical reconstruction
1950 165K 3.61M 45.6 UN estimate
2000 519K 16.6M 31.2 UN estimate
2024 571K 24.7M 23.2 UN projection
2026 625K 26.5M 23.6 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Syria are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2008, at about 659K. That is roughly 9.3 times the estimated ~67.1K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.62 children per woman, fertility in Syria 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.