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Bahrain

1,600,366

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+11.7K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+151.0%from 637.58K
Life expectancy81.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.80births per woman · 2024
Urban population100.0%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanHigh income

A country at every age

How Bahrain is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1418.4%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6477.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate12.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate2.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+9.8births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+18.13Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Bahrain look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 2.14M in 2050—33.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20241.61M
  2. 20502.14M
  3. 21003.09M
Median age in 205035.0years
Births in 205024.07Kduring the year
Deaths in 20506.98Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960165.48K
  2. 1970224.81K
  3. 1980358.98K
  4. 1990514.8K
  5. 2000637.58K
  6. 20101.23M
  7. 20201.47M
  8. 20251.6M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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