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Northern Mariana Islands — Population
Population, Total for Northern Mariana Islands, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
43,541
Population, Total · people · +398.4% since 1960
Population for Northern Mariana Islands was 43,541 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 68,356 in 2000. The lowest was 8,736 in 1960 (about 5.0× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 2.50% per year.
Northern Mariana Islands ranks 207 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 95%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 1.42 million, so Northern Mariana Islands sits below it. It peaked in 2000 and has fallen 36% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 15%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
43,541
First (1960)
8,736
Change
+398.4%
Highest
68,356
in 2000
Lowest
8,736
in 1960
Average
37,218
Annual growth (CAGR)
2.50%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | people |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 43,541 |
| 2024 | 44,278 |
| 2023 | 45,143 |
| 2022 | 46,078 |
| 2021 | 46,979 |
| 2020 | 47,528 |
| 2019 | 48,129 |
| 2018 | 49,077 |
| 2017 | 49,959 |
| 2016 | 50,773 |
| 2015 | 51,514 |
| 2014 | 52,178 |
Reading this correctly. Total population based on the de facto definition, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. Figures are in people. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.POP.TOTL — Population, Total. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.