How many babies are born in UAE each year?

An estimated 119 thousand babies are born in UAE in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 327 a day and 0.09% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in UAE?

UAE has an estimated 10.3 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 1.21 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in UAE?

119 thousand babies born in UAE in 2026 — 0.09% of all births worldwide, and the 102nd largest of any country. UN projection

327births per day
14per hour
0per minute
10.3births per 1,000 people
1.21children per woman
11.57 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 UAE through history

Estimated annual births in UAE, 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 UAE'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	~950	~24K	40.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~1.2K	~31K	40.0	Modelled estimate
1500	~1.3K	~31K	41.1	Modelled estimate
1800	~1.92K	~40.2K	47.8	Historical reconstruction
1900	~2.34K	~48.9K	47.8	Historical reconstruction
1950	3.4K	74.5K	45.6	UN estimate
2000	57K	3.49M	16.3	UN estimate
2024	108K	11M	9.8	UN projection
2026	119K	11.6M	10.3	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in UAE are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 119K. That is roughly 125 times the estimated ~954 births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.21 children per woman, fertility in UAE 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.