TGO · Sub-Saharan Africa

Togo

8,591,626

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+185.07K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+79.6%from 4.78M
Life expectancy62.9 years2024
Fertility rate4.12births per woman · 2024
Urban population44.4%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Togo is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1440.4%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6456.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.5%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 rate32.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate8.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+23.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-15.01Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Togo look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 15.58M in 2050—63.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20249.52M
  2. 205015.58M
  3. 210026.3M
Median age in 205023.3years
Births in 2050375.61Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050114.1Kduring the year
Life expectancy67.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19601.67M
  2. 19702.15M
  3. 19802.79M
  4. 19903.71M
  5. 20004.78M
  6. 20106.33M
  7. 20207.79M
  8. 20258.59M
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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