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Vanuatu

335,169

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+7.39K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+79.9%from 186.28K
Life expectancy71.7 years2024
Fertility rate3.57births per woman · 2024
Urban population22.3%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLower middle income

A country at every age

How Vanuatu is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1438.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6457.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.4%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 rate27.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+22.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-52net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Vanuatu look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 534.39K in 2050—63.0% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024327.78K
  2. 2050534.39K
  3. 2100875.48K
Median age in 205025.2years
Births in 205011.55Kduring the year
Deaths in 20502.8Kduring the year
Life expectancy75.8years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196064.43K
  2. 197086.27K
  3. 1980115.66K
  4. 1990148.06K
  5. 2000186.28K
  6. 2010238.25K
  7. 2020298.86K
  8. 2025335.17K
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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