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Nauru: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
11,988people
Change on 2024
−1.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.0%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
20310.0126Forecast
20300.0125Forecast
20290.0124Forecast
20280.0123Forecast
20270.0122Forecast
20260.0121Forecast
20250.012
20240.0121
20230.012
20220.0119
20210.0118
20200.0117
20190.0115
20180.0114
20170.0112
20160.0111

Sources

  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1960–2014
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2004–2020
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2020–2031
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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