Country or area · Polynesia · Oceania · UN WPP 2024

French Polynesia population

French Polynesia population now

283,219

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: 277,671–288,800.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 281,119

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 283,073; 95% range, 31 Dec: 277,671–288,800
Median age: 37.7
Aged 65+: 12.6%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 50 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

PYF · 1950–2100 · in brief

French Polynesia in numbers

French Polynesia had 281,119 people in mid-2023, the 187th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 4.4 times its 1950 population of 64,342.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2040 at 289 thousand, then falling to 187 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 57,098 to 523 thousand.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2046; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it.

The median age was 17.9 in 1950 and 35.8 in 2023; the projection has 58.6 in 2100. 10.7% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 42.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2027 at 197 thousand.

Among countries it ranks 187th in 2023, 186th in 2050 and 191st in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Barbados in 2026 and Martinique in 2049. It is overtaken by São Tomé and Príncipe in 2035, Samoa in 2054 and Guam in 2091.

Population, mid-2023: 281,119
Rank by population, 2023: 187 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.26% · +741 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 81
Land area, 2023: 3,471 km²
Births, 2023: 3,066
Deaths, 2023: 1,026
Net migration, 2023: −1,348
Children per woman, 2023: 1.50
Median age, 2023: 35.8 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 84.1 years
In a city, 2025: 33 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 64,342
Projected, mid-2050: 284,750
Projected, mid-2100: 186,862

PYF · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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Show the numbers: French Polynesia, 1950–2100

French Polynesia: 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	63,592		2,473	898	5.47	51.9
1951	estimate	65,093		2,598	881	5.59	52.8
1952	estimate	66,718		2,731	869	5.71	53.8
1953	estimate	68,507		2,872	858	5.83	54.7
1954	estimate	70,467		3,027	852	5.94	55.6
1955	estimate	72,647		3,163	847	6.00	56.4
1956	estimate	75,050		3,268	841	5.99	57.2
1957	estimate	77,601		3,384	838	5.99	57.9
1958	estimate	79,282		3,453	829	5.98	58.4
1959	estimate	81,018		3,513	822	5.97	59.0
1960	estimate	82,780		3,549	816	5.93	59.5
1961	estimate	84,562		3,606	814	5.95	59.9
1962	estimate	86,307		3,658	812	5.97	60.2
1963	estimate	88,216		3,709	813	5.97	60.5
1964	estimate	91,257		3,836	827	5.98	60.8
1965	estimate	94,390		3,969	840	6.00	61.1
1966	estimate	97,645		4,075	851	5.98	61.4
1967	estimate	100,994		4,170	860	5.95	61.6
1968	estimate	104,515		4,251	869	5.90	61.9
1969	estimate	108,192		4,313	876	5.82	62.2
1970	estimate	112,030		4,301	879	5.63	62.5
1971	estimate	115,991		4,307	882	5.45	62.8
1972	estimate	119,900		4,349	885	5.27	63.1
1973	estimate	123,873		4,392	892	5.09	63.4
1974	estimate	127,921		4,432	895	4.91	63.8
1975	estimate	131,999		4,458	892	4.71	64.3
1976	estimate	136,091		4,464	885	4.51	64.8
1977	estimate	140,138		4,507	877	4.37	65.3
1978	estimate	144,488		4,392	864	4.04	65.9
1979	estimate	149,155		4,487	852	3.94	66.6
1980	estimate	153,983		4,704	839	3.94	67.4
1981	estimate	158,959		4,924	827	3.93	68.2
1982	estimate	164,052		4,973	808	3.80	68.9
1983	estimate	169,240		5,125	790	3.74	69.7
1984	estimate	174,259		5,437	769	3.83	70.6
1985	estimate	178,679		5,689	761	3.86	71.2
1986	estimate	183,298		5,695	740	3.71	72.0
1987	estimate	188,041		5,738	737	3.62	72.5
1988	estimate	192,857		6,101	728	3.75	73.1
1989	estimate	197,529		5,830	723	3.49	73.5
1990	estimate	201,756		5,870	719	3.43	73.9
1991	estimate	205,797		5,703	714	3.26	74.3
1992	estimate	209,691		5,616	705	3.15	74.8
1993	estimate	213,427		5,589	698	3.08	75.2
1994	estimate	217,011		5,404	687	2.94	75.7
1995	estimate	220,466		5,163	667	2.78	76.2
1996	estimate	223,770		5,085	650	2.72	76.8
1997	estimate	227,209		4,905	635	2.59	77.4
1998	estimate	231,034		4,788	635	2.49	77.8
1999	estimate	234,748		5,039	619	2.58	78.6
2000	estimate	238,442		5,142	622	2.60	79.0
2001	estimate	242,232		5,073	630	2.52	79.3
2002	estimate	245,963		4,949	643	2.42	79.5
2003	estimate	249,588		4,682	659	2.26	79.7
2004	estimate	253,686		4,621	685	2.20	79.8
2005	estimate	257,622		4,652	712	2.18	80.0
2006	estimate	261,391		4,787	739	2.22	80.1
2007	estimate	265,055		4,634	758	2.12	80.3
2008	estimate	267,821		4,838	776	2.19	80.6
2009	estimate	268,937		4,760	787	2.15	80.9
2010	estimate	270,026		4,823	798	2.17	81.1
2011	estimate	271,134		4,598	804	2.06	81.4
2012	estimate	272,320		4,514	812	2.03	81.7
2013	estimate	273,847		4,317	823	1.94	81.9
2014	estimate	275,608		4,367	846	1.96	82.2
2015	estimate	277,167		4,168	868	1.87	82.3
2016	estimate	278,565		3,908	886	1.76	82.6
2017	estimate	279,790		3,682	903	1.67	82.8
2018	estimate	280,383		3,585	921	1.65	83.0
2019	estimate	279,248		3,331	940	1.57	83.2
2020	estimate	278,819		3,290	1,064	1.57	82.5
2021	estimate	279,599		3,196	1,467	1.53	79.6
2022	estimate	279,985		3,128	989	1.51	83.9
2023	estimate	280,771		3,066	1,026	1.50	84.1
2024	estimate	281,466		3,012	1,073	1.49	84.2
2025	projection	282,147	280,546–283,748	2,960	1,123	1.48	84.3
2026	projection	282,783	279,301–286,177	2,916	1,174	1.47	84.4
2027	projection	283,369	277,671–288,800	2,887	1,226	1.47	84.6
2028	projection	283,972	275,931–291,752	2,860	1,279	1.46	84.7
2029	projection	284,570	274,218–294,838	2,839	1,334	1.46	84.8
2030	projection	285,221	272,367–298,057	2,819	1,391	1.46	84.9
2031	projection	285,872	270,332–301,400	2,805	1,450	1.46	85.1
2032	projection	286,433	267,882–304,493	2,791	1,510	1.47	85.2
2033	projection	286,946	265,559–308,074	2,779	1,573	1.47	85.3
2034	projection	287,416	263,141–311,994	2,765	1,635	1.47	85.4
2035	projection	287,856	260,413–315,531	2,755	1,699	1.47	85.5
2036	projection	288,277	257,303–318,622	2,738	1,765	1.48	85.6
2037	projection	288,573	255,014–321,640	2,716	1,830	1.48	85.8
2038	projection	288,794	252,311–325,005	2,692	1,898	1.48	85.9
2039	projection	289,015	249,359–328,382	2,666	1,966	1.48	86.0
2040	projection	289,157	246,500–332,788	2,636	2,038	1.48	86.1
2041	projection	289,181	243,399–336,370	2,604	2,107	1.48	86.2
2042	projection	289,071	240,469–339,928	2,569	2,178	1.48	86.3
2043	projection	288,919	238,083–344,836	2,533	2,250	1.49	86.5
2044	projection	288,636	235,018–346,600	2,494	2,321	1.49	86.6
2045	projection	288,340	231,620–350,136	2,453	2,393	1.49	86.7
2046	projection	287,923	228,736–354,719	2,411	2,465	1.49	86.8
2047	projection	287,412	224,738–357,982	2,367	2,536	1.49	86.9
2048	projection	286,805	219,340–360,674	2,318	2,607	1.49	87.0
2049	projection	286,082	215,671–364,357	2,268	2,679	1.50	87.1
2050	projection	285,207	211,815–367,666	2,218	2,744	1.50	87.3
2051	projection	284,294	206,744–370,543	2,166	2,811	1.50	87.4
2052	projection	283,201	202,958–373,941	2,117	2,874	1.50	87.5
2053	projection	281,990	199,539–375,938	2,071	2,936	1.50	87.6
2054	projection	280,680	195,505–380,180	2,027	2,996	1.50	87.7
2055	projection	279,291	192,111–384,969	1,989	3,052	1.50	87.8
2056	projection	277,832	188,776–387,856	1,953	3,104	1.50	87.9
2057	projection	276,299	185,384–390,267	1,922	3,156	1.50	88.0
2058	projection	274,694	182,221–394,692	1,893	3,200	1.50	88.1
2059	projection	273,056	177,865–397,484	1,873	3,244	1.50	88.2
2060	projection	271,318	172,876–402,754	1,855	3,284	1.51	88.3
2061	projection	269,536	169,992–405,040	1,838	3,319	1.51	88.5
2062	projection	267,728	166,788–407,663	1,823	3,353	1.51	88.6
2063	projection	265,889	161,482–408,800	1,817	3,379	1.51	88.7
2064	projection	264,017	156,580–411,013	1,807	3,405	1.52	88.8
2065	projection	262,092	152,470–411,671	1,798	3,427	1.52	88.9
2066	projection	260,101	149,081–414,192	1,788	3,448	1.52	89.0
2067	projection	258,177	145,427–416,659	1,775	3,464	1.52	89.1
2068	projection	256,171	142,495–419,642	1,762	3,479	1.52	89.2
2069	projection	254,175	137,917–423,040	1,747	3,490	1.52	89.3
2070	projection	252,163	134,713–423,662	1,734	3,500	1.52	89.4
2071	projection	250,170	129,492–423,442	1,720	3,510	1.52	89.5
2072	projection	248,154	126,179–425,577	1,704	3,517	1.52	89.6
2073	projection	246,100	122,953–428,317	1,687	3,523	1.53	89.7
2074	projection	244,028	120,617–432,426	1,667	3,525	1.53	89.8
2075	projection	241,932	117,728–434,588	1,648	3,527	1.53	89.9
2076	projection	239,811	114,997–435,375	1,625	3,524	1.53	90.0
2077	projection	237,679	112,344–436,216	1,601	3,522	1.53	90.2
2078	projection	235,548	109,753–441,723	1,578	3,518	1.53	90.3
2079	projection	233,390	107,461–444,877	1,556	3,511	1.53	90.4
2080	projection	231,188	105,846–449,573	1,530	3,501	1.53	90.5
2081	projection	228,988	102,962–455,950	1,503	3,492	1.53	90.6
2082	projection	226,796	100,622–457,938	1,478	3,479	1.53	90.7
2083	projection	224,627	97,818–461,710	1,453	3,464	1.53	90.8
2084	projection	222,426	94,839–465,316	1,429	3,445	1.53	90.9
2085	projection	220,244	91,302–466,337	1,407	3,420	1.53	91.0
2086	projection	218,054	89,223–471,021	1,385	3,398	1.53	91.1
2087	projection	215,866	86,031–475,511	1,365	3,373	1.54	91.2
2088	projection	213,666	83,320–481,768	1,344	3,349	1.54	91.3
2089	projection	211,474	80,539–487,337	1,328	3,327	1.54	91.4
2090	projection	209,291	78,844–489,911	1,312	3,307	1.54	91.5
2091	projection	207,117	76,310–489,782	1,296	3,285	1.54	91.6
2092	projection	204,935	73,473–499,559	1,281	3,265	1.54	91.7
2093	projection	202,797	71,742–504,583	1,268	3,246	1.54	91.8
2094	projection	200,625	69,156–500,585	1,257	3,231	1.54	91.9
2095	projection	198,488	67,813–499,484	1,245	3,216	1.54	92.0
2096	projection	196,368	65,447–498,402	1,233	3,206	1.54	92.1
2097	projection	194,245	63,740–507,555	1,223	3,196	1.54	92.2
2098	projection	192,130	61,428–510,710	1,215	3,184	1.54	92.3
2099	projection	190,031	59,200–515,929	1,206	3,174	1.54	92.4
2100	projection	187,920	57,098–523,141	1,198	3,159	1.54	92.5

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

French Polynesia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	1,488	1,408
1	1,496	1,417
2	1,512	1,432
3	1,534	1,452
4	1,562	1,477
5	1,430	1,334
6	1,423	1,304
7	1,699	1,574
8	1,841	1,733
9	1,873	1,762
10	1,918	1,803
11	1,958	1,862
12	2,056	1,914
13	2,144	1,958
14	2,145	2,011
15	2,187	2,066
16	2,270	2,114
17	2,257	2,153
18	2,186	2,144
19	2,190	2,078
20	2,206	2,050
21	2,132	2,040
22	2,056	2,008
23	2,060	2,018
24	2,081	2,048
25	2,088	2,034
26	2,089	1,946
27	1,973	1,814
28	1,787	1,688
29	1,703	1,630
30	1,725	1,663
31	1,812	1,734
32	1,886	1,838
33	1,929	1,973
34	1,984	2,056
35	2,065	2,080
36	2,134	2,119
37	2,162	2,187
38	2,200	2,240
39	2,190	2,242
40	2,149	2,239
41	2,156	2,248
42	2,143	2,216
43	2,112	2,144
44	2,098	2,064
45	2,064	2,016
46	1,992	1,999
47	1,909	1,956
48	1,902	1,898
49	1,936	1,856
50	1,932	1,862
51	1,921	1,922
52	1,917	1,930
53	1,932	1,900
54	1,952	1,900
55	1,942	1,886
56	1,924	1,850
57	1,928	1,824
58	1,962	1,849
59	1,928	1,835
60	1,790	1,717
61	1,704	1,662
62	1,686	1,642
63	1,644	1,569
64	1,542	1,475
65	1,431	1,382
66	1,384	1,335
67	1,314	1,247
68	1,216	1,144
69	1,184	1,132
70	1,155	1,120
71	1,074	1,050
72	976	970
73	904	915
74	813	827
75	680	699
76	609	653
77	588	651
78	541	601
79	494	547
80	459	512
81	422	466
82	372	416
83	320	384
84	275	349
85	238	308
86	205	268
87	169	226
88	130	198
89	100	172
90	80	146
91	64	125
92	50	105
93	40	88
94	29	66
95	18	44
96	12	30
97	8	22
98	5	16
99	4	12
100+	3	22

PYF · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

French Polynesia, 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.

PYF · ages 15–64

Who does the work in French Polynesia

On the UN's projection, French Polynesia will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2027: 197,046 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 195,493.

100 aged 15–64

28 children

15 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.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 29 years: 2006–2034.

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

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

PYF · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in French Polynesia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 French Polynesia loses 1,318 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 283 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 50 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.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 1,193 (1979); its biggest loss, 3,802 (2018).

In 2024, 30,099 people living in French Polynesia had been born in another country, 11 of every 100 people there, against 13 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in French Polynesia

Of every 100 babies born in French Polynesia in 2023, 8 had a mother under 20, 68 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 24 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 13 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
13 · 71 · 16

2023
8 · 68 · 24

2050 · projected
5 · 61 · 34

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: 3,066
Average age when women have a baby: 29.2 years; 28.9 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 24; 92 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in French Polynesia by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	10	22	7	1	0	0
15–19	300	706	554	258	106	28
20–24	743	1,516	1,433	702	360	147
25–29	637	1,018	1,412	638	399	291
30–34	381	634	1,047	736	588	395
35–39	287	399	544	541	532	255
40–44	103	143	137	182	224	77
45–49	12	19	8	8	9	5
50–54	0	1	0	0	0	0
All babies	2,473	4,458	5,142	3,066	2,218	1,198

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

PYF · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in French Polynesia

UNHCR publishes no refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced people in or from French Polynesia at the end of 2025.

An empty row is not the same as a zero. These figures cover the people one agency works with, so a country it has no operation in has nothing to report here.

How the world's displacement is counted

PYF · of every 100 people

How people live in French Polynesia

Of every 100 people in French Polynesia in 2025, 33 lived in a city, 31 in a town or suburb and 36 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (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

PYF · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in French Polynesia went in school

Of every 100 adults in French Polynesia in 2020, 3 never went to school and 62 finished upper secondary or went further.

3 never went to school 4 some primary 13 finished primary 18 finished lower secondary 40 finished upper secondary 22 studied after school

Among women, 0.5 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 4.1 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 0.7 against 4.9.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2030; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2045.

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

PYF · cities · 2025

Cities in French Polynesia

French Polynesia had 1 city in 2025, home to 92,406 people.

Papeete92,406

How to read this: one bar for the city, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

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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 French Polynesia 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.