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Myanmar

54,850,648

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+350.56K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+21.1%from 45.29M
Life expectancy67.1 years2024
Fertility rate2.10births per woman · 2024
Urban population30.6%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLower middle income

A country at every age

How Myanmar 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 0–1424.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6468.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+7.5%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 rate9.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+7.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-39.66Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Myanmar look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 58.62M in 2050—7.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202454.5M
  2. 205058.62M
  3. 210049.66M
Median age in 205036.3years
Births in 2050732.31Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050697.13Kduring the year
Life expectancy71.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196021.73M
  2. 197027.19M
  3. 198033.23M
  4. 199039.82M
  5. 200045.29M
  6. 201049.02M
  7. 202053.02M
  8. 202554.85M
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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