What is the population of Saint Helena in 2026?

Saint Helena has about 5,130 people right now, according to the UN's World Population Prospects 2024. On July 1, 2026, there were 5,148.

How many people are born each day in Saint Helena?

Very few: about 40 a year. About 90 people die each year.

Is the population of Saint Helena growing?

No: it shrinks by 1.15% a year, or about 50 people.

What will the population of Saint Helena be in 2050?

According to the UN projection (medium variant), about 3,968.

Why doesn't this figure match the country's official statistics?

The UN estimates the population of every country with the same method, based on censuses, surveys and registers, and projects it year by year. Each national statistics office uses its own censuses and registers, which may be more up to date or count foreign residents differently. That is why the figures can differ slightly.

How many people live in Saint Helena right now?

Right now, according to UN estimates

5,130

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2026 figures

Rank by population: 232 of 237
Share of world population: < 0.0001%
Median age: 51.0 years
Children per woman: 1.64
Life expectancy: 77.3 years
People per km²: 13

According to UN estimates, about 5,130 people live in Saint Helena right now. It ranks 232nd out of 237 countries and territories by population, between Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Montserrat, and it is home to one in every 1.6 million people on the planet.

Every year, about 40 people are born there and about 90 die. Overall, it loses about 50 people a year.

In 1950, about 5,224 people lived there. Today there are almost as many. It peaked in 1987, at about 6,699, and has been falling since. By 2050 it is projected to have about 3,968 people (23% fewer than today), and by 2100 about 2,635.

Half of its people are younger than 51 (worldwide, 31). Women have an average of 1.64 children each, below the 2.1 needed for each generation to replace the one before, and life expectancy at birth is 77 years (worldwide, 74). There are 13 people per square kilometer.

Population from 1950 to 2100

UN estimates up to today and projections (medium variant) from today onward.

Frequently asked questions

What is the population of Saint Helena in 2026?: Saint Helena has about 5,130 people right now, according to the UN's World Population Prospects 2024. On July 1, 2026, there were 5,148.
How many people are born each day in Saint Helena?: Very few: about 40 a year. About 90 people die each year.
Is the population of Saint Helena growing?: No: it shrinks by 1.15% a year, or about 50 people.
What will the population of Saint Helena be in 2050?: According to the UN projection (medium variant), about 3,968.
Why doesn't this figure match the country's official statistics?: The UN estimates the population of every country with the same method, based on censuses, surveys and registers, and projects it year by year. Each national statistics office uses its own censuses and registers, which may be more up to date or count foreign residents differently. That is why the figures can differ slightly.

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Sudan 53,735,142
Uganda 53,195,593
Algeria 48,206,601
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Where these figures come from

The figures are estimates from the United Nations Population Division, published in World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant): the reference used by international organizations and by most population counters. The UN estimates how many people there are on July 1 of each year and how many are born, die and migrate; between one date and the next, this counter spreads the change continuously, second by second.

It is not a real-time headcount: nobody can count every person in a country at once. It is the best available estimate, and it may differ slightly from the figures of each country's statistics office, which use their own censuses and population registers.