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West Bank and Gaza

5,413,596

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+124.44K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+85.3%from 2.92M
Life expectancy69.2 years2024
Fertility rate3.25births per woman · 2024
Urban population87.4%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanLower middle income

A country at every age

How West Bank and Gaza is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1437.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6458.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.9%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 rate26.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+20.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-23.16Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could West Bank and Gaza look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 8.45M in 2050—53.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.5M
  2. 20508.45M
  3. 210011.48M
Median age in 205028.0years
Births in 2050152.87Kduring the year
Deaths in 205032.52Kduring the year
Life expectancy81.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19901.98M
  2. 20002.92M
  3. 20103.79M
  4. 20204.8M
  5. 20255.41M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 11/8/2026

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