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How many babies are born in Thailand?

566 thousand babies born in Thailand in 2026. That is 0.43% of all births worldwide, and the 50th largest of any country. UN projection

2024–2100 uses the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium scenario, based on assumptions about fertility, mortality and migration. These are projections, not observed births or guaranteed outcomes. Uncertainty increases further into the future; this site does not display prediction intervals.

Births in Thailand: history and projections

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Annual births, logarithmic scale. Shading marks modelled years before 1800; the dashed line marks UN projections from 2024.
Every figure refers to the area inside Thailand’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 ~21K ~500K 41.0 Modelled estimate
1000 ~42K ~1,000K 41.2 Modelled estimate
1500 ~83K ~2M 41.1 Modelled estimate
1800 ~132K ~3M 44.0 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~326K ~7.41M 44.0 Historical reconstruction
1950 902K 20.4M 44.2 UN estimate
2000 947K 63M 15.0 UN estimate
2023 591K 71.7M 8.2 UN estimate
2026 566K 71.6M 7.9 UN projection
2050 461K 66.4M 7.0 UN projection
2075 387K 55.2M 7.0 UN projection
2100 328K 45.6M 7.2 UN projection

What the numbers show

The highest annual births in Thailand among estimates through 2023 were in 1968, at about 1.35M. That is roughly 65 times the estimated ~20.7K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.19 children per woman, fertility in Thailand is below the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

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How many babies are born in Thailand each year?

An estimated 566 thousand babies are born in Thailand in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 1,550 a day and 0.43% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Thailand?

Thailand has an estimated 7.9 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.19 children per woman.

Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium scenario. UN estimates cover 1950–2023; projections cover 2024–2100. Earlier years come from 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.