How many people live in Wallis and Futuna right now?
Right now, according to UN estimates
11,090
| Today | In 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Births | · | · |
| Deaths | · | · |
| Growth | · | · |
2026 figures
- Rank by population
- 229 of 237
- Share of world population
- 0.0001%
- Median age
- 38.6 years
- Children per woman
- 1.39
- Life expectancy
- 79.0 years
- People per km²
- 79
According to UN estimates, about 11,090 people live in Wallis and Futuna right now. It ranks 229th out of 237 countries and territories by population, between Saint Barthélemy and Tuvalu, and it is home to one in every 750,000 people on the planet.
Every year, about 100 people are born there and about 90 die. More people are born than die, but emigration makes the population shrink. Overall, it loses about 80 people a year.
In 1950, about 8,536 people lived there. Since then, the population has grown by 30%. It peaked in 2003, at about 15,053, and has been falling since. By 2050 it is projected to have about 10,148 people (8% fewer than today), and by 2100 about 6,878.
Half of its people are younger than 39 (worldwide, 31). Women have an average of 1.39 children each, below the 2.1 needed for each generation to replace the one before, and life expectancy at birth is 79 years (worldwide, 74). There are 79 people per square kilometer.
UN estimates up to today and projections (medium variant) from today onward.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the population of Wallis and Futuna in 2026?
- Wallis and Futuna has about 11,090 people right now, according to the UN's World Population Prospects 2024. On July 1, 2026, there were 11,113.
- How many people are born each day in Wallis and Futuna?
- Very few: about 100 a year. About 90 people die each year.
- Is the population of Wallis and Futuna growing?
- No: it shrinks by 0.72% a year, or about 80 people.
- What will the population of Wallis and Futuna be in 2050?
- According to the UN projection (medium variant), about 10,148.
- 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
- Cook Islands 12,701
- Nauru 12,130
- Saint Barthélemy 11,587
- Tuvalu 9,329
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon 5,495
- Saint Helena 5,130
More countries in Oceania
- Australia 27,305,145
- Papua New Guinea 11,005,616
- New Zealand 5,298,033
- Fiji 938,561
- Solomon Islands 864,515
- Vanuatu 344,892
- New Caledonia 298,674
- French Polynesia 283,264
- Samoa 220,922
- Guam 170,550
- 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.