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

Macao population

UN name: China, Macao SAR

Macao population now

723,596

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: 575,878–882,057.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 713,911

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 723,199; 95% range, 31 Dec: 575,878–882,057
Median age: 41.3
Aged 65+: 15.9%

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

MAC · 1950–2100 · in brief

Macao in numbers

713,911 people lived in Macao in mid-2023: less than 0.01% of the world's people, and the 168th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 3.6 times its 1950 population of 197 thousand.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2031 at 727 thousand, then falling to 331 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 53,935 to 1.7 million.

In the medium projection, deaths outnumber births every year from 2030 on. Deaths also outnumbered births in 1974–1978. The population still grows until 2031, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 25.4 in 1950 and 39.3 in 2023; the projection has 63.2 in 2100. 13.5% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 48.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2024 at 517 thousand.

Among countries it ranks 168th in 2023, 171st in 2050 and 184th in 2100. It is overtaken by Luxembourg in 2033, Western Sahara in 2039 and Suriname in 2040.

Population, mid-2023: 713,911
Rank by population, 2023: 168 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.36% · +9,554 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 21,634
Land area, 2023: 33.0 km²
Births, 2023: 4,515
Deaths, 2023: 3,423
Net migration, 2023: +8,807
Children per woman, 2023: 0.66
Median age, 2023: 39.3 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 83.1 years
In a city, 2025: 99 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 196,654
Projected, mid-2050: 668,860
Projected, mid-2100: 331,168

MAC · 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: Macao, 1950–2100

Macao: 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	193,635		9,360	2,174	5.55	58.3
1951	estimate	199,672		9,304	2,253	5.51	58.8
1952	estimate	200,553		8,997	2,237	5.46	59.3
1953	estimate	200,249		8,660	2,188	5.40	59.8
1954	estimate	198,926		8,306	2,120	5.34	60.3
1955	estimate	196,809		7,910	2,052	5.26	60.7
1956	estimate	194,076		7,478	2,011	5.18	61.0
1957	estimate	190,282		7,022	1,820	5.09	62.5
1958	estimate	186,095		6,553	1,735	5.00	63.1
1959	estimate	181,241		6,101	1,669	4.93	63.7
1960	estimate	175,609		5,778	1,639	4.96	63.9
1961	estimate	171,022		5,134	1,576	4.67	64.5
1962	estimate	175,624		4,786	1,547	4.39	65.1
1963	estimate	179,995		4,589	1,522	4.23	65.7
1964	estimate	184,275		4,265	1,511	3.94	66.0
1965	estimate	267,035		4,325	1,707	3.62	66.3
1966	estimate	264,227		3,947	1,603	3.32	66.8
1967	estimate	261,658		3,608	1,530	3.01	67.4
1968	estimate	259,188		3,151	1,471	2.61	68.0
1969	estimate	256,678		2,836	1,467	2.31	68.3
1970	estimate	253,934		2,641	1,444	2.08	68.8
1971	estimate	260,857		2,651	1,443	1.99	69.2
1972	estimate	266,061		2,981	1,359	1.94	69.7
1973	estimate	280,301		3,671	1,244	1.84	70.1
1974	estimate	220,347		779	2,509	1.73	71.0
1975	estimate	222,427		933	2,340	1.55	71.2
1976	estimate	225,454		1,123	2,146	1.43	71.9
1977	estimate	229,300		1,418	2,094	1.39	71.8
1978	estimate	233,778		1,830	1,977	1.43	72.2
1979	estimate	238,635		2,508	1,870	1.58	72.6
1980	estimate	243,658		3,358	1,770	1.73	73.0
1981	estimate	248,536		4,286	1,670	1.85	73.4
1982	estimate	256,474		5,152	1,634	1.99	73.9
1983	estimate	265,635		5,915	1,669	2.10	74.1
1984	estimate	275,371		6,472	1,701	2.15	74.2
1985	estimate	285,742		7,157	1,688	2.23	74.7
1986	estimate	296,813		7,389	1,700	2.19	75.0
1987	estimate	308,526		7,326	1,721	2.06	75.2
1988	estimate	320,713		6,958	1,712	1.86	75.5
1989	estimate	333,097		7,060	1,657	1.81	76.2
1990	estimate	345,348		6,943	1,651	1.71	76.6
1991	estimate	356,898		6,794	1,685	1.61	76.6
1992	estimate	367,637		6,645	1,667	1.55	77.1
1993	estimate	376,860		6,329	1,663	1.47	77.5
1994	estimate	385,793		6,133	1,732	1.43	77.4
1995	estimate	394,450		5,820	1,728	1.37	77.8
1996	estimate	402,936		5,437	1,872	1.29	77.4
1997	estimate	411,121		5,055	1,760	1.21	78.4
1998	estimate	419,017		4,636	1,779	1.11	78.8
1999	estimate	426,603		4,242	1,790	1.02	79.1
2000	estimate	433,902		3,849	1,816	0.93	79.4
2001	estimate	440,716		3,478	1,831	0.84	79.8
2002	estimate	449,534		3,336	1,864	0.81	80.1
2003	estimate	462,494		3,347	1,927	0.80	80.2
2004	estimate	475,612		3,425	1,977	0.80	80.4
2005	estimate	488,788		3,752	2,051	0.86	80.5
2006	estimate	502,033		4,106	2,108	0.92	80.7
2007	estimate	515,460		4,444	2,162	0.97	80.9
2008	estimate	529,091		4,681	2,218	0.98	81.2
2009	estimate	542,769		4,945	2,250	1.00	81.5
2010	estimate	556,197		5,452	2,326	1.05	81.7
2011	estimate	569,414		6,149	2,373	1.13	82.0
2012	estimate	581,851		6,787	2,419	1.19	82.3
2013	estimate	593,040		6,717	2,448	1.15	82.5
2014	estimate	604,446		7,354	2,485	1.22	82.7
2015	estimate	616,162		7,021	2,516	1.14	82.9
2016	estimate	628,196		7,154	2,600	1.14	83.0
2017	estimate	640,427		6,513	2,695	1.02	83.1
2018	estimate	652,682		6,001	2,729	0.92	83.4
2019	estimate	664,862		6,167	2,898	0.94	83.3
2020	estimate	677,086		5,708	2,600	0.86	84.6
2021	estimate	689,047		5,204	3,067	0.77	83.8
2022	estimate	699,757		4,516	4,060	0.66	82.1
2023	estimate	708,956		4,515	3,423	0.66	83.1
2024	estimate	718,867		4,600	3,426	0.68	83.2
2025	projection	721,657	636,487–796,555	4,531	3,502	0.69	83.4
2026	projection	722,357	608,858–846,692	4,437	3,593	0.70	83.6
2027	projection	724,020	575,878–882,057	4,331	3,702	0.71	83.8
2028	projection	724,123	566,973–918,237	4,211	3,830	0.72	84.0
2029	projection	724,374	554,772–950,642	4,071	3,975	0.73	84.1
2030	projection	726,480	544,080–970,771	3,958	4,138	0.74	84.3
2031	projection	726,967	0.5–1.0 million	3,824	4,318	0.75	84.4
2032	projection	727,668	0.5–1.0 million	3,686	4,514	0.76	84.6
2033	projection	726,341	0.5–1.1 million	3,542	4,718	0.77	84.7
2034	projection	726,360	0.5–1.1 million	3,437	4,934	0.78	84.9
2035	projection	724,744	0.5–1.1 million	3,334	5,155	0.79	85.0
2036	projection	722,768	0.5–1.1 million	3,250	5,391	0.80	85.2
2037	projection	719,261	0.5–1.1 million	3,171	5,626	0.81	85.3
2038	projection	715,864	0.5–1.2 million	3,117	5,872	0.82	85.5
2039	projection	711,639	0.5–1.2 million	3,071	6,117	0.82	85.6
2040	projection	708,422	0.5–1.2 million	3,071	6,363	0.83	85.8
2041	projection	705,360	0.5–1.2 million	3,091	6,601	0.84	85.9
2042	projection	701,261	0.4–1.2 million	3,118	6,839	0.85	86.0
2043	projection	697,211	0.4–1.2 million	3,164	7,067	0.86	86.2
2044	projection	693,385	0.4–1.3 million	3,214	7,285	0.86	86.3
2045	projection	690,184	0.4–1.3 million	3,256	7,488	0.87	86.4
2046	projection	687,413	0.4–1.3 million	3,297	7,672	0.88	86.6
2047	projection	683,134	0.4–1.3 million	3,310	7,852	0.89	86.7
2048	projection	678,298	0.4–1.3 million	3,294	8,008	0.89	86.9
2049	projection	674,159	0.4–1.3 million	3,276	8,150	0.90	87.0
2050	projection	670,881	0.4–1.3 million	3,242	8,293	0.91	87.1
2051	projection	666,839	0.4–1.3 million	3,190	8,417	0.91	87.2
2052	projection	661,562	0.4–1.3 million	3,112	8,530	0.92	87.4
2053	projection	655,740	0.4–1.4 million	3,023	8,624	0.93	87.5
2054	projection	649,899	0.4–1.4 million	2,929	8,719	0.94	87.6
2055	projection	644,109	0.3–1.4 million	2,833	8,795	0.94	87.7
2056	projection	638,363	0.3–1.4 million	2,740	8,871	0.95	87.8
2057	projection	633,244	0.3–1.4 million	2,656	8,931	0.95	88.0
2058	projection	628,897	0.3–1.4 million	2,597	8,997	0.96	88.1
2059	projection	623,544	0.3–1.4 million	2,532	9,067	0.96	88.2
2060	projection	616,439	0.3–1.4 million	2,453	9,135	0.97	88.3
2061	projection	612,060	0.3–1.4 million	2,417	9,206	0.98	88.4
2062	projection	605,401	0.3–1.4 million	2,359	9,264	0.98	88.5
2063	projection	600,222	0.3–1.4 million	2,323	9,334	0.99	88.7
2064	projection	592,632	0.3–1.5 million	2,267	9,399	0.99	88.8
2065	projection	585,744	0.3–1.5 million	2,224	9,476	1.00	88.9
2066	projection	580,645	0.3–1.5 million	2,210	9,551	1.00	89.0
2067	projection	572,758	0.3–1.5 million	2,167	9,632	1.01	89.1
2068	projection	564,703	0.2–1.5 million	2,133	9,719	1.02	89.2
2069	projection	556,756	0.2–1.5 million	2,107	9,809	1.02	89.3
2070	projection	548,308	0.2–1.5 million	2,077	9,903	1.03	89.5
2071	projection	540,602	0.2–1.5 million	2,064	9,984	1.03	89.6
2072	projection	533,261	0.2–1.5 million	2,062	10,065	1.04	89.7
2073	projection	524,941	0.2–1.5 million	2,053	10,135	1.04	89.8
2074	projection	516,845	0.2–1.6 million	2,053	10,198	1.05	89.9
2075	projection	508,283	0.2–1.6 million	2,050	10,255	1.06	90.0
2076	projection	499,853	0.2–1.6 million	2,049	10,317	1.06	90.1
2077	projection	491,578	0.2–1.6 million	2,049	10,375	1.07	90.2
2078	projection	483,259	0.2–1.6 million	2,045	10,406	1.07	90.3
2079	projection	475,109	0.1–1.6 million	2,044	10,410	1.08	90.5
2080	projection	467,668	0.1–1.7 million	2,049	10,404	1.08	90.6
2081	projection	459,584	0.1–1.6 million	2,041	10,373	1.08	90.7
2082	projection	451,113	0.1–1.7 million	2,022	10,305	1.09	90.8
2083	projection	442,883	0.1–1.7 million	2,004	10,199	1.09	90.9
2084	projection	434,688	0.1–1.6 million	1,980	10,059	1.09	91.0
2085	projection	426,241	0.1–1.6 million	1,950	9,878	1.10	91.1
2086	projection	418,166	0.1–1.6 million	1,915	9,672	1.10	91.2
2087	projection	410,945	0.1–1.6 million	1,890	9,438	1.11	91.3
2088	projection	403,365	0.1–1.6 million	1,852	9,182	1.11	91.4
2089	projection	396,030	0.1–1.6 million	1,817	8,902	1.12	91.5
2090	projection	388,907	0.1–1.7 million	1,780	8,614	1.12	91.6
2091	projection	382,458	0.1–1.6 million	1,748	8,324	1.13	91.7
2092	projection	376,739	0.1–1.7 million	1,726	8,038	1.13	91.8
2093	projection	370,791	0.1–1.7 million	1,696	7,765	1.13	91.9
2094	projection	364,285	0.1–1.7 million	1,654	7,499	1.14	92.0
2095	projection	358,747	0.1–1.7 million	1,626	7,257	1.14	92.1
2096	projection	353,095	0.1–1.7 million	1,594	7,038	1.14	92.3
2097	projection	348,322	0.1–1.7 million	1,576	6,841	1.15	92.3
2098	projection	343,643	0.1–1.7 million	1,559	6,666	1.15	92.4
2099	projection	338,484	0.1–1.7 million	1,536	6,509	1.15	92.5
2100	projection	333,492	0.1–1.7 million	1,515	6,359	1.15	92.7

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

Macao: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	2,320	2,161
1	2,366	2,210
2	2,414	2,261
3	2,477	2,321
4	2,724	2,552
5	3,073	2,968
6	3,364	3,318
7	3,568	3,444
8	3,724	3,514
9	3,864	3,744
10	4,005	3,905
11	4,066	3,914
12	4,103	3,786
13	4,110	3,654
14	3,728	3,480
15	3,254	3,112
16	2,993	2,932
17	2,871	3,029
18	2,908	3,095
19	3,064	3,108
20	3,117	3,171
21	2,946	3,118
22	2,827	3,203
23	3,158	3,954
24	3,792	4,892
25	4,153	5,294
26	4,130	5,204
27	3,998	5,152
28	4,296	5,338
29	4,825	5,439
30	4,974	5,484
31	5,152	5,878
32	5,444	6,564
33	5,844	7,038
34	6,284	7,387
35	6,418	7,732
36	6,826	7,931
37	7,262	8,033
38	7,040	8,059
39	6,686	7,990
40	6,467	7,782
41	6,318	7,558
42	6,072	7,314
43	5,604	6,888
44	5,152	6,314
45	4,784	5,966
46	4,497	6,072
47	4,270	5,912
48	4,049	5,264
49	3,964	4,976
50	4,027	5,244
51	4,077	5,719
52	6,086	6,702
53	6,066	6,654
54	3,937	5,800
55	3,799	5,662
56	3,708	5,643
57	3,619	5,738
58	3,436	5,598
59	3,222	5,202
60	3,550	5,223
61	4,052	5,672
62	4,357	6,034
63	4,531	6,056
64	4,302	5,512
65	4,136	4,974
66	4,232	4,705
67	4,332	4,650
68	4,300	4,788
69	4,080	4,552
70	3,987	4,143
71	3,794	3,941
72	3,269	3,643
73	2,904	3,231
74	2,673	2,858
75	2,408	2,548
76	2,316	2,390
77	2,181	2,180
78	1,833	1,823
79	1,482	1,498
80	1,213	1,252
81	999	1,066
82	800	895
83	628	744
84	511	653
85	432	570
86	378	504
87	321	484
88	271	442
89	252	390
90	211	354
91	146	300
92	110	256
93	90	212
94	75	155
95	64	120
96	48	104
97	34	78
98	22	55
99	12	38
100+	14	57

MAC · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Macao, 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.

MAC · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Macao

On the UN's projection, Macao will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2024: 517,302 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 517,058.

100 aged 15–64

19 children

19 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 59 years: 1950–1951 and 1981–2037.

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

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

MAC · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Macao, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Macao gains 6,402 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 1,364 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 200 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.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 80,003 (1964), and a loss of 62,374 (1973).

In 2024, 426,862 people living in Macao had been born in another country, 59 of every 100 people there, against 58 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Macao

Of every 100 babies born in Macao in 2023, 71 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 29 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 3 under 20 and 22 aged 35 or older.

1950
3 · 75 · 22

2023
0 · 71 · 29

2050 · projected
0 · 72 · 28

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: 4,515
Average age when women have a baby: 32.1 years; 30.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: fewer than 1; 28 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Macao by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	1	0	1	0	0	0
15–19	281	68	82	7	6	4
20–24	1,971	180	460	161	118	72
25–29	2,758	322	1,369	1,087	797	425
30–34	2,253	160	1,221	1,950	1,411	586
35–39	1,584	135	613	1,110	772	343
40–44	470	54	98	186	126	77
45–49	41	13	5	14	12	8
50–54	1	1	0	0	0	0
All babies	9,360	933	3,849	4,515	3,242	1,515

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

MAC · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Macao

UNHCR publishes no refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced people in or from Macao 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

MAC · of every 100 people

How people live in Macao

Of every 100 people in Macao in 2025, 99 lived in a city and 1 in a town or suburb.

cities towns and suburbs

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 10.2 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

MAC · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Macao went in school

Of every 100 adults in Macao in 2020, 2 never went to school and 55 finished upper secondary or went further.

2 never went to school 6 some primary 16 finished primary 21 finished lower secondary 27 finished upper secondary 28 studied after school

The young went further: 0.4 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 1.8 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 0.3 against 4.4).

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2045.

How to read this: the row is the adults (25 and over) shrunk to 100 people, coloured by how far each went in school, least schooling on the left. The Wittgenstein Centre's count, 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

MAC · cities · 2025

Cities in Macao

Macao had 1 city in 2025, home to 2.2 million people. The largest is Macau - Zhuhai.

Macau - Zhuhai2,203,065

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.

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 Macao 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.