How many babies are born in Yemen each year?

An estimated 1.41 million babies are born in Yemen in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 3,851 a day and 1.06% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Yemen?

Yemen has an estimated 32.7 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 4.33 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Yemen?

1.41 million babies born in Yemen in 2026 — 1.06% of all births worldwide, and the 20th largest of any country. UN projection

3,851births per day
161per hour
3per minute
32.7births per 1,000 people
4.33children per woman
42.96 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 Yemen through history

Estimated annual births in Yemen, 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 Yemen'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	~42K	~1000K	41.6	Modelled estimate
1000	~88K	~2.3M	39.0	Modelled estimate
1500	~92K	~2.3M	41.0	Modelled estimate
1800	~123K	~2.59M	47.4	Historical reconstruction
1900	~141K	~2.97M	47.4	Historical reconstruction
1950	244K	4.62M	52.8	UN estimate
2000	802K	19.6M	40.9	UN estimate
2024	1.39M	40.6M	34.4	UN projection
2026	1.41M	43M	32.7	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Yemen are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 1.41M. That is roughly 34 times the estimated ~41.8K births a year in 1 CE.

At 4.33 children per woman, fertility in Yemen 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.