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Timor-Leste

1,418,517

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+17.88K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+90.4%from 745.09K
Life expectancy67.9 years2024
Fertility rate2.63births per woman · 2024
Urban population28.8%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLower middle income

A country at every age

How Timor-Leste is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1433.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6461.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+5.2%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 rate21.8births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+14.5births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-2.55Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Timor-Leste look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 1.89M in 2050—34.9% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20241.4M
  2. 20501.89M
  3. 21001.97M
Median age in 205031.2years
Births in 205027.75Kduring the year
Deaths in 205013.08Kduring the year
Life expectancy72.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 1960468.12K
  2. 1970553.07K
  3. 1980649.87K
  4. 1990760.35K
  5. 2000745.09K
  6. 20101.08M
  7. 20201.33M
  8. 20251.42M
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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