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Marshall Islands

36,282

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-1.27K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-28.4%from 50.71K
Life expectancy67.1 years2024
Fertility rate2.86births per woman · 2024
Urban population79.1%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Marshall Islands is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1433.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6461.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.9%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 rate20.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+13.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-1.7Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Marshall Islands look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 25.2K in 2050—32.9% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202437.55K
  2. 205025.2K
  3. 210023.81K
Median age in 205027.6years
Births in 2050440during the year
Deaths in 2050271during the year
Life expectancy70.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196014.7K
  2. 197022.53K
  3. 198030.77K
  4. 199044.63K
  5. 200050.71K
  6. 201052.04K
  7. 202042.71K
  8. 202536.28K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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