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LBY · Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Libya

7,458,555

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+77.53K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+40.6%from 5.31M
Life expectancy71.1 years2024
Fertility rate2.30births per woman · 2024
Urban population87.9%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Libya 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 0–1426.8%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6468.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+5.2%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 rate16.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+10.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-172net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Libya look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 9.26M in 2050—25.5% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20247.38M
  2. 20509.26M
  3. 21009.78M
Median age in 205036.3years
Births in 2050116.48Kduring the year
Deaths in 205071.63Kduring the year
Life expectancy79.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19601.49M
  2. 19702.08M
  3. 19803.42M
  4. 19904.45M
  5. 20005.31M
  6. 20106.5M
  7. 20207.05M
  8. 20257.46M
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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