United Arab Emirates Births & Fertility (2026)

If 2026 rates held for a lifetime, a woman in the United Arab Emirates would have about 1.21 children, below the 2.1 needed to sustain the population. Over the preceding five years it has held broadly steady. About 119 thousand babies are born a year, a crude birth rate of 10.3 per 1,000. Its net reproduction rate sits at 0.59, far below the 1.0 that marks generational replacement. Women are having children later in life, at a mean age of 32.2 years, up from 28.2 in 1980. By 2100, projections see it reaching 1.46 children per woman.