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.

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How many babies are born in Thailand?

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

1,550births per day
65per hour
1per minute
7.9births per 1,000 people
1.19children per woman
71.56 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 Thailand through history

Estimated annual births in Thailand, 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 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	~1000K	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
2024	582K	71.7M	8.1	UN projection
2026	566K	71.6M	7.9	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Thailand are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1968, at about 1.35M. That is roughly 27 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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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.