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ZWE · Sub-Saharan Africa

Zimbabwe

16,950,795

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+316.42K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+42.5%from 11.89M
Life expectancy63.1 years2024
Fertility rate3.67births per woman · 2024
Urban population40.5%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Zimbabwe is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1440.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6456.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.6%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 rate29.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+22.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-54.56Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Zimbabwe look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 25.87M in 2050—55.5% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202416.63M
  2. 205025.87M
  3. 210037.17M
Median age in 205023.6years
Births in 2050576.7Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050164.8Kduring the year
Life expectancy69.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19603.81M
  2. 19705.22M
  3. 19807.04M
  4. 199010.14M
  5. 200011.89M
  6. 201013.36M
  7. 202015.53M
  8. 202516.95M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/21/2026

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