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Palau

17,663

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-322024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-7.9%from 19.18K
Life expectancy69.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.88births per woman · 2024
Urban population79.3%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificHigh income

A country at every age

How Palau 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 0–1417.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6470.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+11.8%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 rate10.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate11.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-1.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-16net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Palau look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 15.52K in 2050—12.3% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202417.7K
  2. 205015.52K
  3. 210011.13K
Median age in 205041.2years
Births in 2050157during the year
Deaths in 2050269during the year
Life expectancy72.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19609.33K
  2. 197011.37K
  3. 198012.27K
  4. 199015.26K
  5. 200019.18K
  6. 201018.4K
  7. 202017.79K
  8. 202517.66K
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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