Country or area · Eastern Africa · Africa · UN WPP 2024

Comoros population

Comoros population now

902,964

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 888,751–925,909.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 850,387

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 899,004; 95% range, 31 Dec: 888,751–925,909
Median age: 21.7
Aged 65+: 4.4%

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COM · 1950–2100 · in brief

Comoros in numbers

850,387 people lived in The Comoros in mid-2023: 0.01% of the world's people, and the 164th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 5.3 times its 1950 population of 162 thousand.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 1.9 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 858 thousand to 4.6 million.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 21.1 in 1950 and 21.3 in 2023; the projection has 37.7 in 2100. 4.5% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 16.5% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Its place in the world by population: 164th in 2023, 161st in 2050, 145th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Réunion in 2025, Fiji in 2030 and Mauritius in 2043. It is overtaken by the Solomon Islands in 2039.

Population, mid-2023: 850,387
Rank by population, 2023: 164 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.94% · +16,199 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 457
Land area, 2023: 1,861 km²
Births, 2023: 24,366
Deaths, 2023: 6,119
Net migration, 2023: −2,002
Children per woman, 2023: 3.88
Median age, 2023: 21.3 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 66.8 years
In a city, 2025: 46 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 161,938
Projected, mid-2050: 1,307,558
Projected, mid-2100: 1,911,034

COM · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Comoros, 1950–2100

Comoros: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	159,959		7,283	4,143	5.69	37.4
1951	estimate	163,917		7,537	4,781	5.77	34.3
1952	estimate	167,149		7,880	4,369	5.93	38.0
1953	estimate	170,803		8,200	4,473	6.08	38.4
1954	estimate	174,397		8,490	4,565	6.22	38.7
1955	estimate	177,880		8,748	4,642	6.35	39.0
1956	estimate	181,293		8,975	4,705	6.46	39.4
1957	estimate	184,622		9,172	4,748	6.56	39.7
1958	estimate	188,510		9,384	4,795	6.65	40.1
1959	estimate	192,616		9,587	4,835	6.72	40.5
1960	estimate	195,955		9,765	4,879	6.79	40.8
1961	estimate	199,445		9,933	4,907	6.85	41.2
1962	estimate	202,957		10,088	4,931	6.90	41.5
1963	estimate	206,446		10,197	4,948	6.92	41.9
1964	estimate	209,925		10,311	4,953	6.94	42.3
1965	estimate	213,364		10,434	4,970	6.97	42.7
1966	estimate	216,570		10,564	4,962	7.00	43.1
1967	estimate	220,756		10,711	4,970	7.02	43.6
1968	estimate	226,963		10,961	5,001	7.05	44.1
1969	estimate	233,526		11,223	5,033	7.07	44.6
1970	estimate	240,476		11,525	5,068	7.10	45.2
1971	estimate	247,893		11,826	5,104	7.12	45.9
1972	estimate	255,837		12,171	5,151	7.14	46.5
1973	estimate	264,316		12,543	5,214	7.17	47.0
1974	estimate	273,323		12,941	5,288	7.16	47.6
1975	estimate	282,827		13,371	5,619	7.16	46.9
1976	estimate	292,558		13,832	5,461	7.16	48.6
1977	estimate	302,518		14,285	5,535	7.15	49.2
1978	estimate	312,639		14,792	5,603	7.16	49.7
1979	estimate	322,737		15,318	5,682	7.16	50.1
1980	estimate	332,845		15,809	5,713	7.15	50.7
1981	estimate	342,597		16,293	5,723	7.14	51.2
1982	estimate	352,168		16,747	5,745	7.13	51.8
1983	estimate	362,110		17,167	5,800	7.11	52.1
1984	estimate	372,356		17,613	5,783	7.07	52.8
1985	estimate	382,917		18,006	5,804	7.02	53.3
1986	estimate	393,787		18,382	5,816	6.95	53.8
1987	estimate	404,849		18,720	5,850	6.87	54.1
1988	estimate	416,029		18,979	5,835	6.76	54.7
1989	estimate	427,344		19,240	5,867	6.65	55.0
1990	estimate	438,862		19,436	5,826	6.50	55.6
1991	estimate	450,331		19,594	5,812	6.35	56.1
1992	estimate	460,781		19,670	5,804	6.19	56.6
1993	estimate	469,444		19,425	5,758	6.02	57.0
1994	estimate	477,920		19,164	5,699	5.86	57.5
1995	estimate	486,365		19,061	5,659	5.73	57.8
1996	estimate	494,807		19,028	5,638	5.63	58.1
1997	estimate	503,407		18,916	5,661	5.51	58.2
1998	estimate	512,148		18,813	5,714	5.39	58.3
1999	estimate	521,047		18,790	5,630	5.28	58.9
2000	estimate	530,726		18,955	5,686	5.23	58.9
2001	estimate	541,433		19,202	5,604	5.20	59.6
2002	estimate	553,007		19,419	5,659	5.16	59.7
2003	estimate	564,840		19,635	5,603	5.12	60.2
2004	estimate	574,755		19,937	5,588	5.07	60.6
2005	estimate	586,653		20,415	5,605	5.01	60.9
2006	estimate	598,701		20,743	5,620	4.93	61.2
2007	estimate	610,805		21,060	5,667	4.86	61.5
2008	estimate	623,048		21,459	5,654	4.80	62.0
2009	estimate	635,566		22,005	5,691	4.78	62.3
2010	estimate	648,329		22,550	5,701	4.75	62.8
2011	estimate	661,343		23,056	5,743	4.72	63.1
2012	estimate	674,769		23,340	5,774	4.65	63.5
2013	estimate	688,490		23,570	5,794	4.57	63.8
2014	estimate	703,895		23,708	5,833	4.49	64.1
2015	estimate	719,110		23,821	5,859	4.42	64.5
2016	estimate	734,254		23,804	5,891	4.35	64.8
2017	estimate	749,228		23,722	5,923	4.28	65.1
2018	estimate	764,111		23,850	5,967	4.21	65.4
2019	estimate	779,069		23,949	6,013	4.14	65.7
2020	estimate	794,087		24,053	6,146	4.07	65.8
2021	estimate	810,240		24,134	6,490	4.00	65.2
2022	estimate	826,109		24,243	6,089	3.94	66.5
2023	estimate	842,267		24,366	6,119	3.88	66.8
2024	estimate	858,507		24,467	6,173	3.82	67.0
2025	projection	874,749	869,274–880,142	24,525	6,208	3.76	67.3
2026	projection	890,946	879,171–902,714	24,599	6,240	3.71	67.5
2027	projection	907,074	888,751–925,909	24,695	6,274	3.65	67.7
2028	projection	923,274	896,363–948,984	24,823	6,313	3.60	67.9
2029	projection	939,588	904,381–973,508	24,938	6,359	3.55	68.1
2030	projection	956,026	913,676–997,855	25,062	6,398	3.50	68.4
2031	projection	972,503	0.9–1.0 million	25,184	6,448	3.44	68.6
2032	projection	989,048	0.9–1.0 million	25,346	6,501	3.40	68.8
2033	projection	1,005,651	0.9–1.1 million	25,528	6,554	3.36	69.0
2034	projection	1,022,472	0.9–1.1 million	25,712	6,614	3.31	69.2
2035	projection	1,039,267	1.0–1.1 million	25,889	6,685	3.27	69.4
2036	projection	1,056,259	1.0–1.2 million	26,075	6,760	3.23	69.6
2037	projection	1,073,443	1.0–1.2 million	26,245	6,834	3.19	69.8
2038	projection	1,090,555	1.0–1.2 million	26,385	6,917	3.15	70.0
2039	projection	1,107,741	1.0–1.3 million	26,559	7,004	3.11	70.2
2040	projection	1,125,099	1.0–1.3 million	26,745	7,105	3.07	70.4
2041	projection	1,142,457	1.0–1.3 million	26,881	7,213	3.04	70.5
2042	projection	1,159,841	1.0–1.4 million	27,054	7,321	3.00	70.7
2043	projection	1,177,182	1.0–1.4 million	27,180	7,435	2.97	70.9
2044	projection	1,194,736	1.0–1.4 million	27,292	7,553	2.94	71.1
2045	projection	1,212,353	1.0–1.5 million	27,406	7,676	2.90	71.3
2046	projection	1,229,791	1.0–1.5 million	27,500	7,804	2.87	71.4
2047	projection	1,247,118	1.0–1.5 million	27,589	7,936	2.84	71.6
2048	projection	1,264,304	1.0–1.6 million	27,651	8,071	2.81	71.8
2049	projection	1,281,772	1.0–1.6 million	27,683	8,209	2.78	72.0
2050	projection	1,298,966	1.0–1.7 million	27,743	8,350	2.75	72.1
2051	projection	1,316,150	1.0–1.7 million	27,766	8,497	2.73	72.3
2052	projection	1,333,221	1.0–1.7 million	27,763	8,640	2.70	72.5
2053	projection	1,350,219	1.0–1.8 million	27,764	8,775	2.67	72.6
2054	projection	1,366,859	1.0–1.8 million	27,738	8,915	2.64	72.8
2055	projection	1,383,330	1.0–1.9 million	27,757	9,058	2.62	73.0
2056	projection	1,399,670	1.0–1.9 million	27,775	9,207	2.60	73.1
2057	projection	1,415,781	1.0–1.9 million	27,744	9,363	2.58	73.3
2058	projection	1,431,694	1.0–2.0 million	27,743	9,513	2.56	73.4
2059	projection	1,447,455	1.0–2.0 million	27,720	9,660	2.53	73.6
2060	projection	1,463,101	1.0–2.1 million	27,733	9,802	2.51	73.8
2061	projection	1,478,617	1.0–2.1 million	27,739	9,955	2.50	74.0
2062	projection	1,493,980	1.0–2.2 million	27,720	10,114	2.48	74.1
2063	projection	1,508,924	1.0–2.2 million	27,668	10,272	2.45	74.3
2064	projection	1,523,832	1.0–2.3 million	27,655	10,430	2.43	74.4
2065	projection	1,538,588	1.0–2.3 million	27,631	10,593	2.42	74.6
2066	projection	1,553,138	1.0–2.4 million	27,626	10,751	2.40	74.7
2067	projection	1,567,614	1.0–2.4 million	27,590	10,909	2.38	74.9
2068	projection	1,581,971	1.0–2.5 million	27,576	11,080	2.36	75.0
2069	projection	1,596,055	1.0–2.5 million	27,543	11,233	2.34	75.2
2070	projection	1,609,854	1.0–2.6 million	27,505	11,398	2.33	75.4
2071	projection	1,623,330	1.0–2.6 million	27,446	11,567	2.31	75.5
2072	projection	1,636,911	1.0–2.7 million	27,417	11,740	2.29	75.7
2073	projection	1,650,175	1.0–2.7 million	27,396	11,912	2.28	75.8
2074	projection	1,663,251	1.0–2.8 million	27,390	12,079	2.27	76.0
2075	projection	1,676,093	1.0–2.8 million	27,313	12,253	2.25	76.1
2076	projection	1,688,866	1.0–2.9 million	27,255	12,432	2.23	76.3
2077	projection	1,701,407	1.0–3.0 million	27,217	12,613	2.22	76.4
2078	projection	1,713,524	1.0–3.0 million	27,160	12,800	2.21	76.6
2079	projection	1,725,447	1.0–3.1 million	27,063	12,997	2.19	76.7
2080	projection	1,736,885	1.0–3.1 million	26,989	13,195	2.18	76.9
2081	projection	1,748,173	1.0–3.2 million	26,874	13,389	2.17	77.0
2082	projection	1,759,186	1.0–3.3 million	26,789	13,589	2.16	77.2
2083	projection	1,770,032	1.0–3.3 million	26,696	13,796	2.15	77.3
2084	projection	1,780,762	1.0–3.4 million	26,579	14,006	2.13	77.5
2085	projection	1,791,015	1.0–3.5 million	26,470	14,204	2.12	77.6
2086	projection	1,800,855	1.0–3.5 million	26,346	14,403	2.11	77.8
2087	projection	1,810,558	0.9–3.6 million	26,236	14,605	2.10	78.0
2088	projection	1,819,780	0.9–3.7 million	26,131	14,816	2.09	78.1
2089	projection	1,828,840	0.9–3.7 million	26,017	15,036	2.08	78.2
2090	projection	1,837,617	0.9–3.8 million	25,929	15,238	2.07	78.4
2091	projection	1,846,117	0.9–3.9 million	25,809	15,436	2.06	78.5
2092	projection	1,854,277	0.9–4.0 million	25,675	15,648	2.05	78.7
2093	projection	1,862,043	0.9–4.1 million	25,533	15,862	2.04	78.8
2094	projection	1,869,425	0.9–4.2 million	25,400	16,054	2.03	79.0
2095	projection	1,876,670	0.9–4.3 million	25,310	16,246	2.02	79.1
2096	projection	1,883,707	0.9–4.3 million	25,202	16,448	2.02	79.3
2097	projection	1,890,254	0.9–4.4 million	25,103	16,663	2.01	79.4
2098	projection	1,896,668	0.9–4.4 million	24,995	16,854	2.00	79.6
2099	projection	1,902,624	0.9–4.5 million	24,856	17,046	1.99	79.7
2100	projection	1,908,335	0.9–4.6 million	24,725	17,222	1.98	79.8

Show the numbers: Comoros, mid-2026, by single year of age

Comoros: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	12,060	11,749
1	11,908	11,599
2	11,792	11,485
3	11,661	11,358
4	11,536	11,236
5	11,427	11,132
6	11,308	11,020
7	11,176	10,891
8	11,037	10,758
9	10,866	10,591
10	10,680	10,416
11	10,523	10,261
12	10,392	10,106
13	10,241	9,936
14	10,066	9,748
15	9,872	9,535
16	9,646	9,288
17	9,392	9,012
18	9,118	8,715
19	8,839	8,420
20	8,584	8,158
21	8,365	7,948
22	8,182	7,798
23	8,070	7,714
24	7,967	7,659
25	7,788	7,568
26	7,520	7,402
27	7,158	7,153
28	6,708	6,828
29	6,230	6,469
30	5,825	6,156
31	5,549	5,941
32	5,409	5,826
33	5,393	5,805
34	5,453	5,841
35	5,519	5,863
36	5,544	5,829
37	5,518	5,732
38	5,448	5,570
39	5,344	5,366
40	5,234	5,166
41	5,128	4,996
42	5,032	4,863
43	4,938	4,761
44	4,836	4,678
45	4,716	4,582
46	4,569	4,449
47	4,396	4,275
48	4,203	4,066
49	4,002	3,836
50	3,808	3,611
51	3,632	3,408
52	3,477	3,232
53	3,339	3,082
54	3,208	2,952
55	3,074	2,834
56	2,934	2,720
57	2,786	2,611
58	2,629	2,506
59	2,470	2,400
60	2,316	2,296
61	2,170	2,191
62	2,034	2,084
63	1,902	1,978
64	1,779	1,874
65	1,662	1,776
66	1,551	1,686
67	1,447	1,604
68	1,348	1,528
69	1,260	1,458
70	1,178	1,388
71	1,095	1,310
72	1,012	1,228
73	932	1,140
74	852	1,048
75	780	962
76	716	887
77	660	821
78	601	758
79	540	695
80	482	631
81	424	562
82	365	486
83	303	404
84	244	324
85	195	261
86	154	212
87	116	165
88	83	122
89	57	85
90	40	60
91	28	44
92	20	34
93	16	27
94	11	20
95	7	14
96	5	8
97	2	5
98	1	2
99	1	1
100+	0	1

COM · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Comoros, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

COM · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Comoros

In the Comoros the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 494,294 of them.

100 aged 15–64

64 children

8 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

COM · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Comoros, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 the Comoros loses 1,953 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 15–19, at 577 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 100 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 1,986 (1975) and the most it lost was 5,198 (1992).

In 2024, 12,449 people living in the Comoros had been born in another country, 1 of every 100 people there, against 3 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

COM · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Comoros

Of every 100 babies born in the Comoros in 2023, 10 had a mother under 20, 69 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 21 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 17 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
17 · 67 · 16

2023
10 · 69 · 21

2050 · projected
7 · 71 · 22

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 24,366
Average age when women have a baby: 30.2 years; 28.7 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 55; 134 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in the Comoros by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	138	295	246	62	19	4
15–19	1,087	2,094	2,843	2,310	1,850	845
20–24	1,854	3,342	4,428	5,735	6,007	4,093
25–29	1,728	2,800	4,207	5,759	7,196	6,783
30–34	1,295	2,494	3,642	5,379	6,665	7,077
35–39	775	1,580	2,390	3,354	4,078	4,273
40–44	323	621	935	1,442	1,634	1,470
45–49	79	138	253	311	281	175
50–54	4	7	11	14	13	5
All babies	7,283	13,371	18,955	24,366	27,743	24,725

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

COM · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Comoros

In the Comoros, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 59.0 (95% range 58.3–60.2), out of 67.5 in all. That leaves 8.5 years in less than full health, fewer than the world's 9.5, which mostly means lives are shorter here, with fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

59.1 in full health, 9.6 not: 68.7 years

Men

58.9 in full health, 7.4 not: 66.3 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 59.1 healthy years of 68.7. Men: 58.9 of 66.3. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 59.8.

COM · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Comoros

At the end of 2025, the Comoros was hosting 19 people who had crossed a border into it, fewer than 1 in every 10,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad19
Comoros nationals abroad2,739

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 50 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from the Comoros living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 327 people from the Comoros asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from the Comoros whose claims were decided that year, 15 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

COM · of every 100 people

How people live in Comoros

Of every 100 people in the Comoros in 2025, 46 lived in a city, 41 in a town or suburb and 13 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

8.3 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 67.5 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

COM · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Comoros went in school

Of every 100 adults in the Comoros in 2020, 37 never went to school and 23 finished upper secondary or went further.

37 never went to school 12 some primary 17 finished primary 11 finished lower secondary 9 finished upper secondary 14 studied after school

The young went further: 13.5 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 83.2 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 10.6 against 54.3).

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2080; those among them who finished upper secondary are still growing in 2100.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

COM · cities · 2025

Cities in Comoros

The Comoros had 2 cities in 2025, home to 408,114 people. The largest, Fomboni, holds 27 of every 100 people in the Comoros.

Fomboni236,750
Moroni171,364

How to read this: the 2 largest cities in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for the Comoros are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.