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Cambodia

17,847,982

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+209.18K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+43.2%from 12.46M
Life expectancy70.8 years2024
Fertility rate2.55births per woman · 2024
Urban population41.1%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLower middle income

A country at every age

How Cambodia 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 0–1429.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+6.4%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 rate20.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+13.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-31.47Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Cambodia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 21.93M in 2050—24.3% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202417.64M
  2. 205021.93M
  3. 210022.74M
Median age in 205032.2years
Births in 2050327.81Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050183.32Kduring the year
Life expectancy74.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19605.45M
  2. 19706.64M
  3. 19805.2M
  4. 19907.37M
  5. 200012.46M
  6. 201014.5M
  7. 202016.73M
  8. 202517.85M
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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