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

Djibouti population

Djibouti population now

1,203,323

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: 1.0–1.4 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 1,152,944

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.19946 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 1.0–1.4 million
Median age: 26.2
Aged 65+: 5.1%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 200 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

DJI · 1950–2100 · in brief

Djibouti in numbers

1,152,944 people lived in Djibouti in mid-2023: 0.01% of the world's people, and the 161st-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 18.5 times its 1950 population of 62,330.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 1.8 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 465 thousand to 10.0 million.

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

The median age was 16.6 in 1950 and 25.4 in 2023; the projection has 39.8 in 2100. 4.7% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 19.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2090 at 1.2 million.

By size it is the 161st country in 2023; the projection puts it 154th in 2050 and 147th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Mauritius in 2030, Estonia in 2032 and Trinidad and Tobago in 2044. It is overtaken by the Comoros in 2086 and the Solomon Islands in 2096.

Population, mid-2023: 1,152,944
Rank by population, 2023: 161 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.39% · +15,848 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 50
Land area, 2023: 23,180 km²
Births, 2023: 23,946
Deaths, 2023: 8,596
Net migration, 2023: +500
Children per woman, 2023: 2.61
Median age, 2023: 25.4 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 66.0 years
In a city, 2025: 80 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 62,330
Projected, mid-2050: 1,530,539
Projected, mid-2100: 1,841,534

DJI · 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. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Djibouti, 1950–2100

Djibouti: 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	61,361		2,821	1,412	6.82	40.7
1951	estimate	63,300		2,924	1,413	6.81	41.0
1952	estimate	65,317		3,031	1,438	6.81	41.2
1953	estimate	67,392		3,144	1,467	6.82	41.5
1954	estimate	69,579		3,261	1,498	6.82	41.8
1955	estimate	71,835		3,379	1,534	6.82	42.0
1956	estimate	74,172		3,499	1,573	6.83	42.3
1957	estimate	76,610		3,622	1,611	6.82	42.6
1958	estimate	79,134		3,757	1,657	6.83	42.8
1959	estimate	81,740		3,888	1,696	6.83	43.1
1960	estimate	84,433		4,034	1,736	6.85	43.4
1961	estimate	87,615		4,195	1,782	6.85	43.8
1962	estimate	91,165		4,376	1,837	6.85	44.1
1963	estimate	95,401		4,589	1,902	6.86	44.4
1964	estimate	100,343		4,841	1,978	6.87	44.8
1965	estimate	106,052		5,114	2,060	6.86	45.2
1966	estimate	112,132		5,416	2,149	6.88	45.6
1967	estimate	118,407		5,712	2,229	6.87	46.1
1968	estimate	124,891		6,023	2,311	6.88	46.5
1969	estimate	131,610		6,336	2,387	6.88	47.1
1970	estimate	140,547		6,749	2,500	6.88	47.5
1971	estimate	149,803		7,171	2,686	6.88	47.3
1972	estimate	160,469		7,618	2,734	6.85	48.5
1973	estimate	172,044		8,091	2,856	6.82	49.1
1974	estimate	184,854		8,606	3,005	6.78	49.5
1975	estimate	200,373		9,224	3,190	6.74	49.9
1976	estimate	219,443		9,987	3,419	6.69	50.3
1977	estimate	242,031		10,884	3,688	6.64	50.8
1978	estimate	267,195		11,867	3,981	6.59	51.2
1979	estimate	292,868		12,838	4,264	6.52	51.6
1980	estimate	316,158		13,681	4,494	6.46	52.0
1981	estimate	335,472		14,340	4,686	6.40	52.4
1982	estimate	350,622		14,819	4,761	6.34	52.9
1983	estimate	363,138		15,211	4,820	6.30	53.3
1984	estimate	375,968		15,598	4,884	6.25	53.8
1985	estimate	392,138		16,111	5,005	6.19	54.1
1986	estimate	413,236		16,834	5,163	6.14	54.5
1987	estimate	439,447		17,751	5,395	6.09	54.8
1988	estimate	469,350		18,777	5,671	6.03	55.1
1989	estimate	499,696		19,812	5,961	5.97	55.4
1990	estimate	547,014		21,559	6,485	5.93	55.5
1991	estimate	612,063		23,858	7,305	5.86	55.2
1992	estimate	650,121		24,961	7,989	5.75	54.4
1993	estimate	601,898		22,804	6,998	5.64	55.7
1994	estimate	626,593		23,312	7,322	5.51	55.6
1995	estimate	626,827		22,723	7,072	5.33	56.2
1996	estimate	639,321		22,555	7,147	5.15	56.3
1997	estimate	657,375		22,608	7,354	4.97	56.2
1998	estimate	686,260		23,407	7,562	4.79	56.4
1999	estimate	712,444		24,284	7,793	4.69	56.6
2000	estimate	735,992		25,005	7,990	4.60	56.7
2001	estimate	758,645		25,659	7,950	4.52	57.5
2002	estimate	783,981		26,258	8,092	4.41	57.8
2003	estimate	807,167		26,584	8,244	4.30	58.0
2004	estimate	819,871		26,106	8,350	4.16	58.1
2005	estimate	832,376		25,652	8,291	4.04	58.5
2006	estimate	845,958		25,151	8,251	3.90	59.0
2007	estimate	865,570		24,911	8,263	3.76	59.4
2008	estimate	883,485		24,598	8,243	3.62	59.8
2009	estimate	901,982		24,524	8,201	3.52	60.4
2010	estimate	921,072		24,457	8,233	3.43	60.7
2011	estimate	939,431		24,338	8,169	3.34	61.3
2012	estimate	957,684		24,227	8,202	3.25	61.7
2013	estimate	975,811		24,218	8,232	3.19	62.1
2014	estimate	993,838		24,160	8,303	3.12	62.4
2015	estimate	1,011,597		24,045	8,328	3.04	62.8
2016	estimate	1,029,029		23,929	8,308	2.97	63.3
2017	estimate	1,046,277		23,948	8,356	2.92	63.7
2018	estimate	1,063,404		23,917	8,392	2.86	64.1
2019	estimate	1,080,360		23,857	8,489	2.80	64.4
2020	estimate	1,097,058		23,847	8,878	2.75	64.2
2021	estimate	1,113,319		23,892	9,337	2.70	63.8
2022	estimate	1,129,177		23,915	8,579	2.65	65.5
2023	estimate	1,145,015		23,946	8,596	2.61	66.0
2024	estimate	1,160,872		24,462	8,750	2.62	66.2
2025	projection	1,176,572	1.1–1.2 million	24,481	8,889	2.58	66.4
2026	projection	1,191,581	1.1–1.3 million	24,494	9,028	2.54	66.6
2027	projection	1,207,338	1.0–1.4 million	24,556	9,175	2.51	66.8
2028	projection	1,222,696	1.0–1.5 million	24,620	9,315	2.48	67.0
2029	projection	1,238,474	1.0–1.5 million	24,709	9,471	2.45	67.2
2030	projection	1,254,866	1.0–1.6 million	24,808	9,638	2.42	67.4
2031	projection	1,270,491	1.0–1.7 million	24,883	9,805	2.39	67.6
2032	projection	1,286,174	1.0–1.8 million	24,911	9,971	2.36	67.8
2033	projection	1,300,719	1.0–1.9 million	24,928	10,138	2.33	68.0
2034	projection	1,314,879	1.0–1.9 million	24,933	10,301	2.31	68.2
2035	projection	1,328,344	1.0–2.0 million	24,911	10,476	2.29	68.3
2036	projection	1,342,653	1.0–2.1 million	24,923	10,661	2.27	68.5
2037	projection	1,356,058	0.9–2.2 million	24,861	10,844	2.25	68.7
2038	projection	1,370,900	0.9–2.3 million	24,811	11,044	2.23	68.9
2039	projection	1,384,665	0.9–2.4 million	24,727	11,241	2.21	69.0
2040	projection	1,399,070	0.9–2.5 million	24,673	11,450	2.19	69.2
2041	projection	1,414,200	0.9–2.6 million	24,622	11,672	2.17	69.4
2042	projection	1,429,384	0.9–2.7 million	24,571	11,900	2.16	69.5
2043	projection	1,443,492	0.9–2.8 million	24,464	12,131	2.14	69.7
2044	projection	1,455,635	0.9–2.8 million	24,299	12,348	2.13	69.9
2045	projection	1,467,641	0.9–2.9 million	24,160	12,572	2.11	70.0
2046	projection	1,480,441	0.9–3.0 million	24,084	12,803	2.10	70.2
2047	projection	1,492,480	0.9–3.1 million	23,989	13,029	2.09	70.3
2048	projection	1,503,602	0.8–3.2 million	23,853	13,252	2.08	70.5
2049	projection	1,514,149	0.8–3.2 million	23,714	13,481	2.06	70.7
2050	projection	1,525,301	0.8–3.3 million	23,641	13,713	2.05	70.8
2051	projection	1,535,778	0.8–3.4 million	23,548	13,941	2.04	71.0
2052	projection	1,545,578	0.8–3.5 million	23,482	14,160	2.03	71.1
2053	projection	1,556,793	0.8–3.6 million	23,440	14,389	2.01	71.3
2054	projection	1,569,843	0.8–3.7 million	23,485	14,621	2.00	71.4
2055	projection	1,580,927	0.7–3.7 million	23,501	14,835	1.99	71.6
2056	projection	1,590,123	0.7–3.8 million	23,456	15,045	1.98	71.7
2057	projection	1,602,366	0.7–3.9 million	23,513	15,260	1.97	71.9
2058	projection	1,615,481	0.7–4.0 million	23,596	15,484	1.96	72.0
2059	projection	1,626,455	0.7–4.0 million	23,695	15,665	1.95	72.2
2060	projection	1,636,926	0.7–4.1 million	23,747	15,843	1.95	72.3
2061	projection	1,646,233	0.7–4.2 million	23,760	16,019	1.94	72.5
2062	projection	1,655,599	0.7–4.4 million	23,782	16,195	1.93	72.6
2063	projection	1,664,937	0.7–4.5 million	23,797	16,368	1.92	72.8
2064	projection	1,671,848	0.6–4.6 million	23,720	16,520	1.92	72.9
2065	projection	1,678,518	0.6–4.7 million	23,625	16,649	1.91	73.1
2066	projection	1,687,401	0.6–4.9 million	23,588	16,790	1.90	73.2
2067	projection	1,697,016	0.6–4.9 million	23,565	16,958	1.89	73.4
2068	projection	1,705,063	0.6–5.0 million	23,510	17,104	1.89	73.5
2069	projection	1,712,728	0.6–5.0 million	23,426	17,252	1.88	73.7
2070	projection	1,718,711	0.6–5.1 million	23,319	17,393	1.87	73.8
2071	projection	1,725,107	0.6–5.3 million	23,245	17,543	1.87	74.0
2072	projection	1,731,500	0.6–5.4 million	23,164	17,690	1.86	74.1
2073	projection	1,736,316	0.6–5.7 million	23,013	17,829	1.86	74.3
2074	projection	1,741,912	0.6–5.7 million	22,899	17,983	1.85	74.4
2075	projection	1,749,185	0.5–5.8 million	22,830	18,139	1.85	74.6
2076	projection	1,755,394	0.5–6.0 million	22,760	18,309	1.84	74.7
2077	projection	1,761,362	0.5–6.2 million	22,677	18,462	1.84	74.8
2078	projection	1,766,238	0.5–6.4 million	22,551	18,617	1.83	75.0
2079	projection	1,770,313	0.5–6.4 million	22,439	18,749	1.83	75.1
2080	projection	1,775,235	0.5–6.7 million	22,375	18,895	1.83	75.3
2081	projection	1,777,990	0.5–6.8 million	22,254	19,035	1.82	75.4
2082	projection	1,781,507	0.5–6.8 million	22,163	19,185	1.82	75.6
2083	projection	1,786,351	0.5–6.9 million	22,131	19,327	1.81	75.7
2084	projection	1,790,043	0.5–7.3 million	22,049	19,459	1.81	75.8
2085	projection	1,794,593	0.5–7.5 million	22,039	19,583	1.81	76.0
2086	projection	1,799,834	0.5–7.6 million	22,019	19,708	1.80	76.1
2087	projection	1,803,408	0.5–7.7 million	21,985	19,839	1.80	76.3
2088	projection	1,807,544	0.5–7.7 million	21,991	19,946	1.80	76.4
2089	projection	1,812,168	0.5–7.8 million	21,976	20,038	1.79	76.6
2090	projection	1,815,618	0.4–8.2 million	21,984	20,116	1.79	76.7
2091	projection	1,818,248	0.5–8.3 million	21,927	20,211	1.79	76.9
2092	projection	1,820,146	0.5–8.5 million	21,882	20,298	1.78	77.0
2093	projection	1,822,307	0.5–8.7 million	21,843	20,359	1.78	77.2
2094	projection	1,827,258	0.5–8.6 million	21,852	20,425	1.78	77.3
2095	projection	1,828,923	0.5–8.9 million	21,782	20,477	1.78	77.5
2096	projection	1,831,110	0.5–8.9 million	21,743	20,542	1.78	77.6
2097	projection	1,832,636	0.5–9.1 million	21,651	20,580	1.77	77.7
2098	projection	1,836,672	0.4–9.2 million	21,635	20,639	1.77	77.9
2099	projection	1,839,429	0.5–9.7 million	21,599	20,688	1.77	78.0
2100	projection	1,841,188	0.5–10.0 million	21,498	20,723	1.77	78.1

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

Djibouti: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	12,063	11,704
1	11,949	11,612
2	11,765	11,437
3	11,583	11,266
4	11,524	11,218
5	11,466	11,174
6	11,414	11,139
7	11,390	11,129
8	11,375	11,126
9	11,346	11,106
10	11,338	11,107
11	11,364	11,140
12	11,377	11,162
13	11,366	11,160
14	11,368	11,169
15	11,394	11,204
16	11,424	11,242
17	11,456	11,285
18	11,552	11,391
19	11,693	11,546
20	11,841	11,710
21	11,968	11,856
22	12,035	11,942
23	11,923	11,854
24	11,592	11,550
25	11,178	11,165
26	10,747	10,758
27	10,311	10,339
28	9,905	9,947
29	9,661	9,711
30	9,556	9,613
31	9,460	9,525
32	9,325	9,401
33	9,140	9,227
34	8,952	9,051
35	8,759	8,870
36	8,520	8,642
37	8,273	8,409
38	8,048	8,196
39	7,832	7,994
40	7,627	7,808
41	7,446	7,646
42	7,286	7,504
43	7,140	7,381
44	7,013	7,274
45	6,899	7,177
46	6,785	7,084
47	6,662	6,981
48	6,525	6,858
49	6,366	6,712
50	6,185	6,544
51	5,985	6,354
52	5,766	6,146
53	5,534	5,921
54	5,288	5,680
55	5,028	5,426
56	4,768	5,168
57	4,512	4,913
58	4,262	4,661
59	4,018	4,414
60	3,777	4,172
61	3,544	3,938
62	3,318	3,709
63	3,100	3,488
64	2,889	3,274
65	2,686	3,067
66	2,491	2,869
67	2,306	2,678
68	2,128	2,494
69	1,960	2,318
70	1,796	2,146
71	1,640	1,981
72	1,492	1,822
73	1,357	1,677
74	1,245	1,557
75	1,164	1,473
76	1,097	1,402
77	1,004	1,296
78	882	1,153
79	762	1,012
80	652	881
81	550	758
82	461	646
83	381	544
84	312	453
85	250	373
86	198	303
87	154	242
88	117	190
89	86	146
90	61	110
91	42	80
92	28	58
93	18	41
94	12	28
95	7	18
96	4	12
97	2	7
98	1	4
99	1	2
100+	0	2

DJI · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Djibouti, 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.

DJI · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Djibouti

On the UN's projection, Djibouti will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2090: 1,169,330 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 757,364.

100 aged 15–64

45 children

7 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 39 years: 2028–2066.

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

DJI · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Djibouti, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Djibouti gains 526 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 335 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 49,970 (1990) and the most it lost was 65,203 (1992).

In 2024, 125,996 people living in Djibouti had been born in another country, 11 of every 100 people there, against 21 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Djibouti

Of every 100 babies born in Djibouti in 2023, 5 had a mother under 20, 69 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 26 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 9 under 20 and 22 aged 35 or older.

1950
9 · 69 · 22

2023
5 · 69 · 26

2050 · projected
4 · 70 · 26

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

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 23,946
Average age when women have a baby: 31.5 years; 31.2 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 19; 70 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Djibouti by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	16	50	45	9	2	1
15–19	228	693	1,292	1,092	901	504
20–24	582	1,743	4,821	3,575	3,009	2,384
25–29	746	2,528	6,746	6,222	6,201	6,014
30–34	633	2,123	6,088	6,854	7,299	7,340
35–39	399	1,347	3,885	4,534	4,931	4,323
40–44	176	599	1,690	1,425	1,202	882
45–49	39	135	415	228	95	50
50–54	2	6	23	7	1	0
All babies	2,821	9,224	25,005	23,946	23,641	21,498

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

DJI · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Djibouti

In Djibouti, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 57.0 (95% range 56.1–58.0), out of 64.9 in all. The years in less than full health come to 7.9, below the world's 9.5: shorter lives leave fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

57.7 in full health, 9.0 not: 66.7 years

Men

56.3 in full health, 6.7 not: 63.0 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: 57.7 healthy years of 66.7. Men: 56.3 of 63.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 57.6.

DJI · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Djibouti

At the end of 2025, Djibouti was hosting 35,040 people who had crossed a border into it, about 30 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad35,040
Djibouti nationals abroad3,642

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 1,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Djibouti living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 1,594 people asked for asylum in Djibouti for the first time; 580 people from Djibouti asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Djibouti whose claims were decided that year, 31 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

DJI · of every 100 people

How people live in Djibouti

Of every 100 people in Djibouti in 2025, 80 lived in a city, 9 in a town or suburb and 11 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

30.8 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 34.7 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

DJI · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Djibouti went in school

Of every 100 adults in Djibouti in 2020, 55 never went to school and 13 finished upper secondary or went further.

55 never went to school 20 some primary 6 finished primary 6 finished lower secondary 9 finished upper secondary 4 studied after school

The young went further: 43.4 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 81.4 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 33.8 against 59.5).

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2060; the ones 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

DJI · cities · 2025

Cities in Djibouti

Djibouti had 4 cities in 2025, home to 946,869 people. The largest, Djibouti, holds 62 of every 100 people in Djibouti.

Djibouti738,192
Ali Sabieh89,316
Tadjoura63,941
Dikhil55,420

How to read this: the 4 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 Djibouti 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.