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Vanuatu — Population
Population, Total for Vanuatu, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
335,169
Population, Total · people · +420.2% since 1960
Population for Vanuatu was 335,169 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 64,431 in 1960 (about 5.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 2.57% per year.
Vanuatu ranks 177 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 82%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 1.42 million, so Vanuatu sits below it. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 26%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
335,169
First (1960)
64,431
Change
+420.2%
Highest
335,169
in 2025
Lowest
64,431
in 1960
Average
171,199
Annual growth (CAGR)
2.57%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | people |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 335,169 |
| 2024 | 327,777 |
| 2023 | 320,409 |
| 2022 | 313,046 |
| 2021 | 305,868 |
| 2020 | 298,858 |
| 2019 | 291,985 |
| 2018 | 285,259 |
| 2017 | 278,507 |
| 2016 | 272,087 |
| 2015 | 266,101 |
| 2014 | 260,240 |
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.