How many people live in Tuvalu right now?
Right now, according to UN estimates
9,329
| Today | In 2026 | |
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| Births | · | · |
| Deaths | · | · |
| Net migration | · | · |
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2026 figures
- Rank by population
- 230 of 237
- Share of world population
- 0.0001%
- Median age
- 24.1 years
- Children per woman
- 3.10
- Life expectancy
- 67.6 years
- People per km²
- 312
According to UN estimates, about 9,329 people live in Tuvalu right now. It ranks 230th out of 237 countries and territories by population, between Wallis and Futuna and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and it is home to one in every 892,000 people on the planet.
Every year, about 190 people are born there and about 90 die. More people leave than arrive: net migration reduces the population by about 230 people a year. More people are born than die, but emigration makes the population shrink. Overall, it loses about 120 people a year.
In 1950, about 4,764 people lived there. Since then, the population has grown by 96%. The UN expects it to keep growing for the rest of the century. By 2050 it is projected to have about 9,780 people (5% more than today), and by 2100 about 12,269.
Half of its people are younger than 24 (worldwide, 31). Women have an average of 3.10 children each, above the 2.1 needed for each generation to replace the one before, and life expectancy at birth is 68 years (worldwide, 74). There are 312 people per square kilometer.
UN estimates up to today and projections (medium variant) from today onward.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the population of Tuvalu in 2026?
- Tuvalu has about 9,329 people right now, according to the UN's World Population Prospects 2024. On July 1, 2026, there were 9,362.
- How many people are born each day in Tuvalu?
- Very few: about 190 a year. About 90 people die each year.
- Is the population of Tuvalu growing?
- No: it shrinks by 1.24% a year, or about 120 people.
- What will the population of Tuvalu be in 2050?
- According to the UN projection (medium variant), about 9,780.
- 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.
Countries with a similar population
- Nauru 12,130
- Saint Barthélemy 11,587
- Wallis and Futuna 11,090
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon 5,495
- Saint Helena 5,130
- Montserrat 4,318
More countries in Oceania
- Australia 27,305,106
- Papua New Guinea 11,005,587
- New Zealand 5,298,027
- Fiji 938,560
- Solomon Islands 864,512
- Vanuatu 344,891
- New Caledonia 298,674
- French Polynesia 283,264
- Samoa 220,922
- Guam 170,549
- Kiribati 139,061
- Micronesia 114,346
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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.