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Palau — Population
Population, Total for Palau, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
17,663
Population, Total · people · +89.4% since 1960
Population for Palau was 17,663 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 19,820 in 2004. The lowest was 9,328 in 1960 (about 1.9× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.99% per year.
Palau ranks 215 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 99%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 1.42 million, so Palau sits below it. It peaked in 2004 and has fallen 11% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 1%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
17,663
First (1960)
9,328
Change
+89.4%
Highest
19,820
in 2004
Lowest
9,328
in 1960
Average
15,324
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.99%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | people |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 17,663 |
| 2024 | 17,695 |
| 2023 | 17,727 |
| 2022 | 17,759 |
| 2021 | 17,783 |
| 2020 | 17,792 |
| 2019 | 17,798 |
| 2018 | 17,814 |
| 2017 | 17,812 |
| 2016 | 17,797 |
| 2015 | 17,770 |
| 2014 | 17,715 |
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.