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Sao Tome and Principe — Population
Population, Total for Sao Tome and Principe, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
240,254
Population, Total · people · +253.3% since 1960
Population for Sao Tome and Principe was 240,254 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 68,012 in 1960 (about 3.5× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.96% per year.
Sao Tome and Principe ranks 181 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 83%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 15.10 million, so Sao Tome and Principe sits below it. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 20%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
240,254
First (1960)
68,012
Change
+253.3%
Highest
240,254
in 2025
Lowest
68,012
in 1960
Average
135,598
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.96%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | people |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 240,254 |
| 2024 | 235,536 |
| 2023 | 230,871 |
| 2022 | 226,305 |
| 2021 | 221,961 |
| 2020 | 217,435 |
| 2019 | 213,392 |
| 2018 | 210,187 |
| 2017 | 206,970 |
| 2016 | 203,689 |
| 2015 | 200,291 |
| 2014 | 196,767 |
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.