HHUMAN
PULSEBehind the data →

GNQ · Sub-Saharan Africa

Equatorial Guinea

1,938,431

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+45.92K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+175.6%from 703.28K
Life expectancy63.9 years2024
Fertility rate4.12births per woman · 2024
Urban population71.6%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Equatorial Guinea is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1437.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6459.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.8%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 rate30.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+22.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+3.81Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Equatorial Guinea look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 3.14M in 2050—66.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20241.89M
  2. 20503.14M
  3. 21005M
Median age in 205024.4years
Births in 205069.62Kduring the year
Deaths in 205023.67Kduring the year
Life expectancy68.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 1960269.81K
  2. 1970320.8K
  3. 1980288.64K
  4. 1990474.27K
  5. 2000703.28K
  6. 20101.19M
  7. 20201.72M
  8. 20251.94M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/19/2026

Keep exploring

Put Equatorial Guinea into context.

Compare this country →Create your HumanPulse →