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Kiribati

136,488

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.97K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+54.0%from 88.61K
Life expectancy66.6 years2024
Fertility rate3.12births per woman · 2024
Urban population63.4%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLower middle income

A country at every age

How Kiribati is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1434.4%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6461.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.4%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 rate25.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+18.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-462net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Kiribati look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 182.62K in 2050—35.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024134.52K
  2. 2050182.62K
  3. 2100222.65K
Median age in 205027.6years
Births in 20503.53Kduring the year
Deaths in 20501.51Kduring the year
Life expectancy69.7years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196047.16K
  2. 197057.51K
  3. 198061.15K
  4. 199074.86K
  5. 200088.61K
  6. 2010108.7K
  7. 2020126.1K
  8. 2025136.49K
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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