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Maldives

529,676

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.88K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+87.8%from 282.02K
Life expectancy81.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.56births per woman · 2024
Urban population42.5%2025
RegionSouth AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Maldives 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 0–1419.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6476.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+5.0%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 rate10.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate2.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+8.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-2.28Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Maldives look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 589.96K in 2050—11.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024527.8K
  2. 2050589.96K
  3. 2100474.92K
Median age in 205049.4years
Births in 20505.28Kduring the year
Deaths in 20503.45Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196091.19K
  2. 1970123.22K
  3. 1980164.84K
  4. 1990224.76K
  5. 2000282.02K
  6. 2010360.79K
  7. 2020502.12K
  8. 2025529.68K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryValidated dataChecked 9/23/2026

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