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Lao PDR

7,873,046

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+103.23K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+45.0%from 5.43M
Life expectancy69.2 years2024
Fertility rate2.40births per woman · 2024
Urban population40.3%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLower middle income

A country at every age

How Lao PDR 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 0–1429.8%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.8%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 rate20.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+14.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-10.65Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Lao PDR look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 9.76M in 2050—25.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20247.77M
  2. 20509.76M
  3. 21009.26M
Median age in 205033.0years
Births in 2050135.5Kduring the year
Deaths in 205076.27Kduring the year
Life expectancy74.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19602.12M
  2. 19702.67M
  3. 19803.29M
  4. 19904.31M
  5. 20005.43M
  6. 20106.33M
  7. 20207.35M
  8. 20257.87M
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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