Somalia: more babies born than in the UK
births in 2023
The UK has 3.7 times as many people (68.7M against 18.4M), yet more babies were born here in 2023: 789k against 657k. It overtook the UK in births in 2019.
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Live births in a calendar year, for two countries: one has far fewer people yet more babies.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- Somalia: Births thousand births per year
112 (1950) → 789 (2023)
- United Kingdom: Births thousand births per year
817 (1950) → 657 (2023)
UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024 → Eurostat demo_gind (UK births); ONS Vital statistics in the UK reference tables 2021 (UK TFR 2015-2021)
- Somalia: Population thousand persons, 1 July
18,359 (2023)
- United Kingdom: Population thousand persons, 1 July
68,683 (2023)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024) and national statistics where available; population on 1 July of the same year.
A question for this picture
How many of these children will look for work in 20 years, and where?