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Sao Tome and Principe

240,254

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+4.72K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+66.8%from 144.02K
Life expectancy69.9 years2024
Fertility rate3.60births per woman · 2024
Urban population69.2%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Sao Tome and Principe is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1437.5%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 rate28.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+22.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-650net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Sao Tome and Principe look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 365.12K in 2050—55.0% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024235.54K
  2. 2050365.12K
  3. 2100534.01K
Median age in 205024.8years
Births in 20507.53Kduring the year
Deaths in 20502.02Kduring the year
Life expectancy74.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196068.01K
  2. 197077.63K
  3. 198098.54K
  4. 1990122.98K
  5. 2000144.02K
  6. 2010181.8K
  7. 2020217.44K
  8. 2025240.25K
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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