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Bhutan

796,682

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+5.16K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+33.5%from 596.86K
Life expectancy73.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.45births per woman · 2024
Urban population43.4%2025
RegionSouth AsiaLower middle income

A country at every age

How Bhutan 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 0–1420.4%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6473.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+6.6%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 rate12.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+6.5births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+455net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Bhutan look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 882.34K in 2050—11.5% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024791.52K
  2. 2050882.34K
  3. 2100690.43K
Median age in 205042.2years
Births in 20507.71Kduring the year
Deaths in 20507.27Kduring the year
Life expectancy79.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 1960224.08K
  2. 1970308.53K
  3. 1980433.4K
  4. 1990589.29K
  5. 2000596.86K
  6. 2010701.63K
  7. 2020770.01K
  8. 2025796.68K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/21/2026

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