CHI · Europe & Central Asia

Channel Islands

168,466

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+3402024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+13.7%from 148.11K
Life expectancy81.2 years2024
Fertility rate1.37births per woman · 2024
Urban population32.6%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Channel Islands is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.4%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 rate8.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate10.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-2.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+675net people estimate · 2025

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 1960110.81K
  2. 1970123.29K
  3. 1980130.46K
  4. 1990143.09K
  5. 2000148.11K
  6. 2010158.62K
  7. 2020166.24K
  8. 2025168.47K
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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