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Tuvalu

9,492

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-1542024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-0.5%from 9.54K
Life expectancy67.3 years2024
Fertility rate3.17births per woman · 2024
Urban population65.4%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Tuvalu is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1433.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6459.9%Working-age population
Ages 65+7.0%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 rate22.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.3deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+12.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-255net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Tuvalu look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 9.78K in 2050—1.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20249.65K
  2. 20509.78K
  3. 210012.27K
Median age in 205027.9years
Births in 2050188during the year
Deaths in 205096during the year
Life expectancy70.7years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19605.6K
  2. 19705.66K
  3. 19807.37K
  4. 19908.8K
  5. 20009.54K
  6. 201010.61K
  7. 202010.4K
  8. 20259.49K
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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