Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Asia · Central Asia

How many babies are born in Turkmenistan?

149 thousand babies born in Turkmenistan in 2026 — 0.11% of all births worldwide, and the 95th 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 Turkmenistan through history

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Estimated annual births in Turkmenistan, 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 Turkmenistan'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 ~3.8K ~92K 40.7 Modelled estimate
1000 ~6.9K ~170K 40.5 Modelled estimate
1500 ~9.9K ~240K 41.1 Modelled estimate
1800 ~15.9K ~367K 43.2 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~32.9K ~761K 43.2 Historical reconstruction
1950 49.5K 1.27M 39.0 UN estimate
2000 109K 4.58M 23.7 UN estimate
2024 157K 7.49M 20.9 UN projection
2026 149K 7.74M 19.2 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Turkmenistan are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2016, at about 171K. That is roughly 40 times the estimated ~3.75K births a year in 1 CE.

At 2.60 children per woman, fertility in Turkmenistan 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.