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Liberia

5,731,206

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+118.39K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+95.7%from 2.93M
Life expectancy62.3 years2024
Fertility rate3.86births per woman · 2024
Urban population56.1%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Low income

A country at every age

How Liberia is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1439.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6457.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.3%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 rate30.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate8.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+22.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-9.87Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Liberia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 8.91M in 2050—58.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.61M
  2. 20508.91M
  3. 210012.67M
Median age in 205024.7years
Births in 2050193.46Kduring the year
Deaths in 205069.38Kduring the year
Life expectancy65.8years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19601.14M
  2. 19701.47M
  3. 19801.93M
  4. 19902.22M
  5. 20002.93M
  6. 20104.06M
  7. 20205.15M
  8. 20255.73M
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

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