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Northern Mariana Islands

43,541

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-7372024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-36.3%from 68.36K
Life expectancy78.9 years2024
Fertility rate2.32births per woman · 2024
Urban population92.2%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificHigh income

A country at every age

How Northern Mariana Islands 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 0–1421.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6468.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+10.8%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 rate12.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+7.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-963net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Northern Mariana Islands look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 42.76K in 2050—3.4% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202444.28K
  2. 205042.76K
  3. 210041.61K
Median age in 205039.7years
Births in 2050472during the year
Deaths in 2050551during the year
Life expectancy82.7years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19608.74K
  2. 197010.17K
  3. 198017.63K
  4. 199043.34K
  5. 200068.36K
  6. 201054.09K
  7. 202047.53K
  8. 202543.54K
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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