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Sao Tome and Principe: Population

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

2025
240,254people
Change on 2024
+2.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.8%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
20310.27Forecast
20300.265Forecast
20290.26Forecast
20280.255Forecast
20270.25Forecast
20260.245Forecast
20250.24
20240.236
20230.231
20220.226
20210.222
20200.217
20190.213
20180.21
20170.207
20160.204

Sources

  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1800–1938
  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Historical Financial Statistics1879–1973
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1950–2014
  • Maddison Project Database1950–2022
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • Penn World Table1970–2019
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2011
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2011–2031
  • 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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