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Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) population

Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) population now

14,658,348

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 13,938,827

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 14.6044 million
Median age: 24.6
Aged 65+: 4.6%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024

male female projection · one cell = 5,000 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

AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) in numbers

In mid-2023 there were 13,938,827 people in Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand), and 0.17% of the world's people. That is 5.6 times its 1950 population of 2.5 million.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 24.0 million.

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

The median age was 18.5 in 1950 and 24.0 in 2023; the projection has 38.7 in 2100. 4.2% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 16.7% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2096 at 15.5 million.

Population, mid-2023: 13,938,827
Share of the world, 2023: 0.17%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.62% · +222,196 people
Births, 2023: 329,697
Deaths, 2023: 91,244
Net migration, 2023: −15,798
Children per woman, 2023: 3.02
Median age, 2023: 24.0 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 67.7 years
Population, mid-1950: 2,494,031
Projected, mid-2050: 19,425,921
Projected, mid-2100: 23,989,719

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand), 1950–2100

Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand): population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	2,467,891	111,115	50,522	5.96	42.6
1951	estimate	2,520,171	114,786	56,648	5.99	40.1
1952	estimate	2,570,255	118,225	50,265	6.01	43.9
1953	estimate	2,630,753	121,739	50,156	6.04	44.5
1954	estimate	2,695,670	124,578	49,967	6.04	45.2
1955	estimate	2,763,879	128,040	49,662	6.08	46.0
1956	estimate	2,836,596	131,085	49,663	6.11	46.5
1957	estimate	2,913,276	134,347	49,229	6.14	47.3
1958	estimate	2,992,262	137,188	49,023	6.16	48.0
1959	estimate	3,074,219	139,800	48,962	6.18	48.6
1960	estimate	3,158,518	142,703	48,767	6.21	49.2
1961	estimate	3,245,501	145,426	48,627	6.24	49.8
1962	estimate	3,327,154	148,902	48,863	6.26	50.2
1963	estimate	3,410,736	151,278	48,051	6.25	51.0
1964	estimate	3,495,012	154,153	47,970	6.25	51.5
1965	estimate	3,579,576	156,693	47,277	6.22	52.3
1966	estimate	3,666,218	159,644	47,081	6.20	52.8
1967	estimate	3,755,075	161,932	46,663	6.16	53.4
1968	estimate	3,840,759	164,588	46,234	6.12	54.0
1969	estimate	3,929,895	167,312	45,988	6.09	54.5
1970	estimate	4,023,415	169,634	45,614	6.04	55.1
1971	estimate	4,121,036	171,777	45,459	5.97	55.5
1972	estimate	4,220,160	173,686	45,062	5.90	56.1
1973	estimate	4,319,112	174,757	44,910	5.83	56.5
1974	estimate	4,417,218	175,920	44,361	5.75	57.1
1975	estimate	4,517,140	177,778	44,167	5.69	57.5
1976	estimate	4,617,950	179,813	43,632	5.63	58.1
1977	estimate	4,719,533	181,653	43,332	5.57	58.6
1978	estimate	4,821,707	183,307	43,061	5.48	59.1
1979	estimate	4,925,872	185,062	43,215	5.39	59.5
1980	estimate	5,031,618	187,362	43,570	5.32	59.8
1981	estimate	5,141,293	190,494	43,823	5.26	60.1
1982	estimate	5,254,939	193,814	44,203	5.19	60.4
1983	estimate	5,370,454	198,172	44,521	5.14	60.8
1984	estimate	5,489,481	201,726	44,860	5.08	61.1
1985	estimate	5,611,024	205,187	45,201	5.02	61.4
1986	estimate	5,735,907	208,221	45,909	4.95	61.5
1987	estimate	5,860,811	211,479	46,393	4.88	61.8
1988	estimate	5,984,232	214,856	46,774	4.83	62.1
1989	estimate	6,107,710	217,371	47,166	4.76	62.3
1990	estimate	6,239,270	220,516	47,885	4.71	62.4
1991	estimate	6,392,250	223,021	48,565	4.65	62.6
1992	estimate	6,569,476	226,994	49,304	4.59	62.9
1993	estimate	6,760,084	231,992	50,407	4.53	63.0
1994	estimate	6,954,965	235,921	51,324	4.46	63.2
1995	estimate	7,153,597	240,104	52,381	4.39	63.4
1996	estimate	7,356,716	245,598	53,644	4.34	63.5
1997	estimate	7,570,608	251,004	54,853	4.29	63.7
1998	estimate	7,794,234	256,355	58,523	4.23	63.2
1999	estimate	8,019,110	262,607	57,669	4.18	63.9
2000	estimate	8,249,426	268,127	59,421	4.13	64.0
2001	estimate	8,475,732	273,484	61,109	4.08	64.0
2002	estimate	8,703,667	278,355	63,424	4.04	63.9
2003	estimate	8,934,760	283,341	64,990	4.00	64.0
2004	estimate	9,169,625	287,535	66,724	3.95	64.1
2005	estimate	9,406,697	291,961	68,474	3.91	64.2
2006	estimate	9,646,018	296,741	70,015	3.87	64.3
2007	estimate	9,889,054	300,845	71,580	3.82	64.4
2008	estimate	10,134,722	305,513	72,641	3.78	64.7
2009	estimate	10,380,525	308,939	74,116	3.73	64.8
2010	estimate	10,631,249	313,533	74,882	3.68	65.1
2011	estimate	10,897,581	317,162	75,867	3.63	65.4
2012	estimate	11,156,997	320,504	77,762	3.58	65.5
2013	estimate	11,414,703	323,355	78,447	3.53	65.8
2014	estimate	11,672,248	326,434	79,708	3.49	66.0
2015	estimate	11,927,456	327,744	80,951	3.43	66.2
2016	estimate	12,177,839	328,945	82,161	3.38	66.4
2017	estimate	12,426,532	329,210	83,348	3.32	66.6
2018	estimate	12,673,197	330,463	85,019	3.27	66.8
2019	estimate	12,916,011	330,574	86,605	3.22	66.9
2020	estimate	13,148,134	331,652	91,228	3.18	66.6
2021	estimate	13,382,442	331,446	98,963	3.13	65.8
2022	estimate	13,605,753	331,463	93,368	3.08	67.0
2023	estimate	13,827,509	329,697	91,244	3.02	67.7
2024	estimate	14,050,145	331,264	93,336	3.00	67.8
2025	projection	14,272,989	331,162	95,266	2.96	68.0
2026	projection	14,494,449	331,646	97,321	2.92	68.1
2027	projection	14,714,388	332,164	99,387	2.89	68.2
2028	projection	14,933,612	332,992	101,596	2.86	68.4
2029	projection	15,151,360	333,464	103,834	2.83	68.5
2030	projection	15,367,702	334,287	106,232	2.80	68.6
2031	projection	15,583,565	335,130	108,626	2.77	68.8
2032	projection	15,796,781	336,639	111,070	2.74	68.9
2033	projection	16,009,101	337,999	113,593	2.72	69.0
2034	projection	16,219,677	339,219	116,209	2.69	69.1
2035	projection	16,430,323	340,272	118,868	2.66	69.2
2036	projection	16,638,646	341,344	121,566	2.64	69.4
2037	projection	16,846,680	342,134	124,302	2.61	69.5
2038	projection	17,052,600	343,296	127,182	2.59	69.6
2039	projection	17,256,791	344,270	130,009	2.57	69.7
2040	projection	17,457,980	345,122	132,931	2.55	69.8
2041	projection	17,656,560	345,636	135,801	2.53	69.9
2042	projection	17,852,402	345,673	138,811	2.50	70.0
2043	projection	18,045,788	346,214	141,834	2.48	70.1
2044	projection	18,237,605	346,653	144,769	2.47	70.2
2045	projection	18,428,513	347,017	147,779	2.45	70.3
2046	projection	18,617,807	346,958	150,895	2.43	70.4
2047	projection	18,802,762	346,551	153,750	2.41	70.5
2048	projection	18,984,400	346,153	156,757	2.39	70.6
2049	projection	19,163,621	345,622	159,831	2.38	70.7
2050	projection	19,340,272	345,123	162,908	2.36	70.8
2051	projection	19,511,570	344,555	165,920	2.35	70.9
2052	projection	19,680,389	344,006	168,882	2.33	71.0
2053	projection	19,846,912	343,158	171,854	2.31	71.1
2054	projection	20,008,165	342,341	174,840	2.30	71.2
2055	projection	20,167,970	341,596	177,838	2.28	71.3
2056	projection	20,322,055	340,907	180,720	2.27	71.4
2057	projection	20,472,397	340,153	183,646	2.26	71.5
2058	projection	20,620,498	339,375	186,492	2.24	71.6
2059	projection	20,765,348	338,671	189,418	2.23	71.7
2060	projection	20,907,463	337,691	192,275	2.22	71.8
2061	projection	21,047,447	337,032	195,181	2.20	71.9
2062	projection	21,181,110	336,363	198,022	2.19	72.0
2063	projection	21,310,986	335,630	200,758	2.18	72.1
2064	projection	21,438,201	335,300	203,416	2.17	72.2
2065	projection	21,564,739	334,606	206,155	2.16	72.3
2066	projection	21,688,807	334,097	208,820	2.15	72.4
2067	projection	21,810,207	333,266	211,401	2.13	72.5
2068	projection	21,928,353	332,520	213,936	2.12	72.6
2069	projection	22,042,596	331,925	216,457	2.12	72.7
2070	projection	22,152,096	331,046	218,955	2.10	72.8
2071	projection	22,257,827	330,077	221,305	2.09	72.9
2072	projection	22,362,175	329,226	223,798	2.08	73.0
2073	projection	22,462,297	327,748	226,229	2.07	73.1
2074	projection	22,557,351	326,773	228,546	2.06	73.2
2075	projection	22,648,974	325,425	230,533	2.05	73.4
2076	projection	22,738,264	324,682	232,739	2.05	73.5
2077	projection	22,823,934	323,809	234,993	2.04	73.6
2078	projection	22,907,772	322,827	237,080	2.03	73.7
2079	projection	22,990,206	321,663	239,166	2.02	73.8
2080	projection	23,067,744	320,163	241,163	2.02	73.9
2081	projection	23,146,853	319,015	243,233	2.01	74.0
2082	projection	23,218,794	317,972	245,198	2.00	74.1
2083	projection	23,286,926	316,688	247,239	2.00	74.2
2084	projection	23,354,562	315,553	249,136	1.99	74.3
2085	projection	23,417,014	314,291	250,995	1.99	74.5
2086	projection	23,477,838	313,197	252,846	1.98	74.6
2087	projection	23,535,753	311,915	254,528	1.97	74.7
2088	projection	23,589,394	310,543	256,171	1.97	74.8
2089	projection	23,639,874	308,820	257,898	1.96	74.9
2090	projection	23,686,993	307,199	259,538	1.95	75.1
2091	projection	23,735,009	305,653	261,368	1.95	75.2
2092	projection	23,777,649	304,430	262,992	1.94	75.3
2093	projection	23,816,586	303,020	264,723	1.93	75.4
2094	projection	23,851,241	301,553	266,524	1.93	75.5
2095	projection	23,882,929	300,170	268,021	1.92	75.6
2096	projection	23,910,581	298,847	269,484	1.92	75.8
2097	projection	23,935,102	297,029	271,237	1.91	75.9
2098	projection	23,955,213	295,445	272,679	1.90	76.0
2099	projection	23,971,017	293,746	274,076	1.90	76.1
2100	projection	23,984,713	292,050	275,186	1.89	76.2

AGG · membership

What Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) is

Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) is one of the UN's analytical groupings. This dataset carries the group's totals, not its membership, so its countries are not listed here.

Show the numbers: Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand), mid-2026, by single year of age

Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand): population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	167,108	156,214
1	165,902	155,132
2	164,972	154,266
3	164,529	153,792
4	164,553	153,904
5	163,837	153,343
6	162,938	152,442
7	162,234	151,810
8	161,223	150,880
9	160,217	149,794
10	159,438	148,852
11	158,502	147,796
12	157,272	146,414
13	155,700	144,658
14	154,010	142,798
15	152,212	140,818
16	149,801	138,300
17	147,209	135,754
18	144,790	133,372
19	142,408	131,018
20	140,205	128,912
21	137,908	126,797
22	135,602	124,870
23	133,046	122,845
24	130,303	120,579
25	127,706	118,494
26	125,189	116,634
27	122,480	114,724
28	119,856	112,822
29	117,774	111,253
30	115,762	109,848
31	113,780	108,498
32	111,952	107,274
33	109,922	105,985
34	107,698	104,452
35	105,720	103,175
36	103,980	102,414
37	101,625	101,160
38	98,635	99,136
39	95,672	96,930
40	92,890	94,704
41	90,206	92,442
42	87,520	90,024
43	84,690	87,258
44	81,981	84,503
45	79,680	82,044
46	77,397	79,706
47	74,692	76,881
48	72,376	74,102
49	70,712	71,953
50	68,699	69,722
51	66,417	67,317
52	64,202	65,018
53	62,096	62,747
54	59,925	60,300
55	57,738	57,848
56	55,648	55,485
57	53,483	53,129
58	51,433	50,798
59	49,534	48,537
60	47,412	46,165
61	45,212	43,743
62	43,012	41,395
63	40,644	39,024
64	37,940	36,347
65	35,178	33,741
66	32,603	31,437
67	29,970	29,049
68	27,320	26,634
69	24,742	24,396
70	22,381	22,398
71	20,179	20,519
72	18,121	18,766
73	16,239	17,196
74	14,392	15,607
75	12,616	13,982
76	11,125	12,510
77	9,998	11,030
78	8,834	9,675
79	7,608	8,589
80	6,518	7,576
81	5,466	6,544
82	4,556	5,592
83	3,770	4,790
84	3,074	4,074
85	2,518	3,434
86	2,045	2,843
87	1,628	2,300
88	1,268	1,848
89	970	1,468
90	721	1,138
91	524	878
92	374	663
93	264	490
94	183	354
95	124	250
96	83	176
97	56	124
98	38	84
99	24	58
100+	34	113

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand), 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.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)

On the UN's projection, Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2096: 15,519,600 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 8,752,680.

100 aged 15–64

53 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.

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

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand), and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) loses 13,333 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 2,175 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 200 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 27,693 (2010) and the most it lost was 44,631 (1988).

This is a group of countries, so its figure counts only moves across its own outer edge: someone moving from one country inside it to another does not appear.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)

Of every 100 babies born in Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) in 2023, 10 had a mother under 20, 71 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 19 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 11 under 20 and 14 aged 35 or older.

1950
11 · 75 · 14

2023
10 · 71 · 19

2050 · projected
8 · 73 · 19

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: 329,697
Average age when women have a baby: 29.2 years; 29.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 50; 93 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	367	847	2,672	960	281	68
15–19	12,174	18,228	29,186	32,422	28,210	12,591
20–24	32,395	48,691	70,195	85,490	85,761	53,316
25–29	30,031	45,284	68,908	84,202	91,320	82,417
30–34	20,526	32,972	50,225	65,699	74,820	80,648
35–39	11,436	21,072	30,584	41,366	48,654	50,453
40–44	3,630	8,924	13,247	16,241	14,225	11,553
45–49	541	1,687	2,957	3,171	1,785	983
50–54	15	73	153	146	67	21
All babies	111,115	177,778	268,127	329,697	345,123	292,050

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

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual tables for regions and groups (estimates to 2023, then the medium projection), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UN WUP 2025 · Maddison Project 2020 · flag-icons. 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.