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French Polynesia

282,465

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+6582024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+17.5%from 240.34K
Life expectancy84.2 years2024
Fertility rate1.49births per woman · 2024
Urban population61.8%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificHigh income

A country at every age

How French Polynesia 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 0–1418.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6469.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+11.9%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 rate10.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate3.8deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+6.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-1.2Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could French Polynesia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 284.75K in 2050—1.0% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024281.81K
  2. 2050284.75K
  3. 2100186.86K
Median age in 205047.6years
Births in 20502.22Kduring the year
Deaths in 20502.74Kduring the year
Life expectancy87.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196083.67K
  2. 1970114.01K
  3. 1980156.47K
  4. 1990203.78K
  5. 2000240.34K
  6. 2010270.58K
  7. 2020279.21K
  8. 2025282.47K
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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