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

Oman population

Oman population now

5,710,695

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: 5.2–6.5 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 5,049,269

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 5.67146 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 5.2–6.5 million
Median age: 30.8
Aged 65+: 2.7%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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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.

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OMN · 1950–2100 · in brief

Oman in numbers

The UN counts 5,049,269 people in Oman in mid-2023, which makes it the 126th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.06% of the world's people. That is 11.0 times its 1950 population of 457 thousand.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 12.1 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 4.4 million to 26.7 million.

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

The median age was 18.8 in 1950 and 30.3 in 2023; the projection has 36.5 in 2100. 2.7% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 16.0% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Among countries it ranks 126th in 2023, 113th in 2050 and 92nd in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Costa Rica in 2024, Ireland in 2024 and New Zealand in 2024. It is overtaken by Mauritania in 2031.

Population, mid-2023: 5,049,269
Rank by population, 2023: 126 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.06%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +6.74% · +319,043 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 16
Land area, 2023: 309,500 km²
Births, 2023: 85,065
Deaths, 2023: 9,597
Net migration, 2023: +156,285
Children per woman, 2023: 2.52
Median age, 2023: 30.3 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 80.0 years
In a city, 2025: 45 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 456,988
Projected, mid-2050: 7,827,002
Projected, mid-2100: 12,094,997

OMN · 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: Oman, 1950–2100

Oman: 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	454,182		23,743	16,127	7.26	29.3
1951	estimate	459,793		24,036	16,090	7.25	29.8
1952	estimate	465,720		24,379	16,170	7.25	30.2
1953	estimate	471,920		24,720	16,222	7.25	30.7
1954	estimate	478,409		25,082	16,255	7.25	31.2
1955	estimate	485,224		25,429	16,262	7.23	31.8
1956	estimate	492,379		25,825	16,244	7.23	32.4
1957	estimate	499,959		26,283	16,233	7.23	33.0
1958	estimate	507,996		26,829	16,145	7.25	33.8
1959	estimate	516,671		27,366	16,062	7.25	34.5
1960	estimate	525,962		27,987	15,952	7.28	35.4
1961	estimate	535,007		28,463	15,773	7.29	36.4
1962	estimate	544,700		29,046	15,560	7.32	37.4
1963	estimate	555,182		29,595	15,313	7.33	38.5
1964	estimate	566,472		30,256	15,051	7.37	39.6
1965	estimate	578,683		30,874	14,771	7.39	40.8
1966	estimate	591,788		31,507	14,477	7.41	42.0
1967	estimate	605,820		32,159	14,169	7.44	43.2
1968	estimate	620,817		32,810	13,847	7.46	44.4
1969	estimate	636,779		33,461	13,512	7.49	45.6
1970	estimate	653,731		34,161	13,268	7.52	46.6
1971	estimate	671,629		34,896	12,924	7.56	47.9
1972	estimate	690,608		35,662	12,693	7.59	48.7
1973	estimate	710,579		36,534	12,339	7.63	50.0
1974	estimate	731,780		37,527	11,984	7.67	51.2
1975	estimate	762,196		39,463	11,763	7.71	52.5
1976	estimate	795,532		41,355	11,324	7.74	54.5
1977	estimate	833,869		43,588	11,245	7.78	55.5
1978	estimate	876,760		46,099	10,958	7.82	57.0
1979	estimate	923,848		48,800	10,777	7.85	58.3
1980	estimate	974,384		51,693	10,583	7.89	59.6
1981	estimate	1,028,112		54,569	10,393	7.90	60.8
1982	estimate	1,086,528		57,065	10,126	7.84	62.0
1983	estimate	1,148,828		59,517	9,871	7.75	63.2
1984	estimate	1,214,090		61,864	9,611	7.64	64.3
1985	estimate	1,281,343		63,956	9,348	7.51	65.3
1986	estimate	1,369,617		64,417	9,093	7.35	66.2
1987	estimate	1,457,222		64,787	8,853	7.17	67.0
1988	estimate	1,544,771		64,792	8,650	6.95	67.7
1989	estimate	1,632,365		64,695	8,494	6.72	68.4
1990	estimate	1,720,091		64,380	8,381	6.46	69.0
1991	estimate	1,807,817		63,685	8,304	6.20	69.6
1992	estimate	1,895,129		62,733	8,264	5.92	70.1
1993	estimate	1,981,348		61,702	8,262	5.64	70.6
1994	estimate	2,062,002		60,612	8,276	5.36	71.1
1995	estimate	2,101,667		59,192	8,054	5.07	71.6
1996	estimate	2,139,388		58,216	7,853	4.79	72.0
1997	estimate	2,174,464		57,175	7,665	4.52	72.5
1998	estimate	2,206,977		56,146	7,492	4.27	72.9
1999	estimate	2,238,001		55,393	7,341	4.06	73.3
2000	estimate	2,267,816		54,409	7,199	3.85	73.6
2001	estimate	2,296,447		53,724	7,073	3.66	74.0
2002	estimate	2,323,987		53,361	6,964	3.51	74.3
2003	estimate	2,350,294		53,151	6,876	3.37	74.5
2004	estimate	2,377,297		52,390	6,738	3.20	74.8
2005	estimate	2,432,345		51,491	6,804	3.03	75.1
2006	estimate	2,487,259		50,825	6,857	2.88	75.3
2007	estimate	2,542,331		51,169	6,962	2.76	75.6
2008	estimate	2,598,017		54,029	6,884	2.76	76.1
2009	estimate	2,655,041		58,852	6,844	2.83	76.6
2010	estimate	2,714,277		64,393	6,773	2.97	77.2
2011	estimate	2,800,615		66,403	6,713	2.96	77.7
2012	estimate	3,352,911		73,376	7,804	2.93	78.2
2013	estimate	3,741,300		80,308	8,403	2.95	78.6
2014	estimate	3,926,526		84,715	8,458	2.97	79.0
2015	estimate	4,078,352		87,851	8,608	2.96	79.3
2016	estimate	4,291,438		90,204	8,858	2.95	79.6
2017	estimate	4,490,317		91,449	9,042	2.92	79.8
2018	estimate	4,584,476		88,598	9,158	2.81	79.9
2019	estimate	4,611,279		86,580	9,188	2.70	80.0
2020	estimate	4,571,203		85,276	11,051	2.64	77.8
2021	estimate	4,473,790		82,526	12,535	2.59	76.0
2022	estimate	4,527,058		77,354	10,073	2.45	77.9
2023	estimate	4,933,394		85,065	9,597	2.52	80.0
2024	estimate	5,165,144		88,613	10,054	2.51	80.3
2025	projection	5,397,932	5.2–5.7 million	90,129	10,336	2.48	80.5
2026	projection	5,591,450	5.2–6.1 million	90,828	10,553	2.44	80.7
2027	projection	5,751,467	5.2–6.5 million	90,929	10,722	2.41	80.9
2028	projection	5,877,977	5.2–6.8 million	90,550	10,861	2.37	81.0
2029	projection	5,980,657	5.2–7.1 million	89,970	10,984	2.33	81.3
2030	projection	6,071,698	5.2–7.4 million	89,262	11,098	2.29	81.5
2031	projection	6,153,713	5.1–7.7 million	88,593	11,218	2.26	81.6
2032	projection	6,235,020	5.1–8.0 million	88,286	11,357	2.22	81.8
2033	projection	6,315,926	5.0–8.3 million	88,114	11,501	2.19	82.0
2034	projection	6,396,575	5.0–8.6 million	88,281	11,668	2.16	82.2
2035	projection	6,477,279	5.0–8.8 million	88,775	11,839	2.14	82.4
2036	projection	6,558,328	5.0–9.1 million	89,375	12,021	2.11	82.6
2037	projection	6,639,888	4.9–9.4 million	90,311	12,228	2.09	82.8
2038	projection	6,722,201	4.9–9.5 million	91,277	12,454	2.07	83.0
2039	projection	6,805,356	4.8–9.9 million	92,428	12,693	2.05	83.1
2040	projection	6,889,400	4.8–10.2 million	93,714	12,961	2.03	83.3
2041	projection	6,974,547	4.8–10.5 million	95,034	13,242	2.02	83.5
2042	projection	7,060,829	4.8–10.9 million	96,308	13,540	2.00	83.6
2043	projection	7,148,129	4.8–11.0 million	97,470	13,874	1.98	83.8
2044	projection	7,236,315	4.8–11.3 million	98,594	14,223	1.97	84.0
2045	projection	7,325,387	4.8–11.5 million	99,548	14,595	1.96	84.1
2046	projection	7,415,064	4.8–11.9 million	100,629	14,987	1.95	84.3
2047	projection	7,505,487	4.8–12.1 million	101,581	15,403	1.93	84.4
2048	projection	7,596,473	4.8–12.5 million	102,661	15,851	1.93	84.6
2049	projection	7,688,187	4.8–12.7 million	103,791	16,350	1.92	84.7
2050	projection	7,780,512	4.8–13.0 million	104,817	16,855	1.91	84.9
2051	projection	7,873,492	4.8–13.3 million	105,793	17,414	1.90	85.0
2052	projection	7,966,878	4.8–13.5 million	106,678	17,991	1.89	85.2
2053	projection	8,060,632	4.9–13.8 million	107,243	18,614	1.88	85.3
2054	projection	8,154,348	4.9–14.1 million	107,688	19,256	1.88	85.4
2055	projection	8,247,847	4.9–14.4 million	107,906	19,958	1.87	85.5
2056	projection	8,340,933	4.8–14.7 million	108,105	20,668	1.86	85.7
2057	projection	8,433,470	4.8–14.9 million	108,110	21,409	1.85	85.8
2058	projection	8,525,422	4.8–15.1 million	108,207	22,213	1.85	85.9
2059	projection	8,616,783	4.8–15.4 million	108,286	23,067	1.84	86.1
2060	projection	8,707,321	4.8–15.6 million	108,387	23,933	1.84	86.2
2061	projection	8,797,050	4.9–15.9 million	108,617	24,856	1.84	86.3
2062	projection	8,886,146	4.9–16.1 million	108,880	25,803	1.83	86.4
2063	projection	8,974,561	4.9–16.6 million	109,109	26,801	1.82	86.6
2064	projection	9,062,257	4.8–16.7 million	109,594	27,828	1.82	86.7
2065	projection	9,149,362	4.7–16.9 million	110,104	28,900	1.82	86.8
2066	projection	9,235,842	4.7–17.1 million	110,564	29,977	1.81	86.9
2067	projection	9,321,873	4.6–17.3 million	111,022	31,102	1.81	87.0
2068	projection	9,407,180	4.7–17.9 million	111,533	32,179	1.80	87.1
2069	projection	9,491,920	4.6–18.3 million	112,073	33,281	1.80	87.2
2070	projection	9,576,062	4.6–18.7 million	112,705	34,349	1.80	87.4
2071	projection	9,659,702	4.5–18.9 million	113,429	35,480	1.80	87.5
2072	projection	9,743,057	4.4–19.1 million	114,031	36,543	1.79	87.6
2073	projection	9,825,897	4.4–19.4 million	114,641	37,581	1.79	87.7
2074	projection	9,908,269	4.4–19.6 million	115,380	38,532	1.78	87.8
2075	projection	9,990,365	4.4–20.1 million	116,214	39,497	1.78	87.9
2076	projection	10,072,367	4.4–20.1 million	117,063	40,359	1.78	88.0
2077	projection	10,154,346	4.4–20.6 million	117,920	41,168	1.77	88.1
2078	projection	10,236,300	4.3–20.9 million	118,757	41,975	1.77	88.2
2079	projection	10,318,277	4.3–21.1 million	119,670	42,716	1.77	88.3
2080	projection	10,400,357	4.4–21.3 million	120,483	43,368	1.76	88.4
2081	projection	10,482,581	4.4–21.4 million	121,236	43,976	1.76	88.5
2082	projection	10,564,919	4.4–21.8 million	122,185	44,549	1.76	88.6
2083	projection	10,647,587	4.4–22.2 million	122,770	45,073	1.76	88.7
2084	projection	10,730,387	4.5–22.4 million	123,465	45,565	1.75	88.8
2085	projection	10,813,312	4.4–22.8 million	124,221	46,042	1.75	88.9
2086	projection	10,896,445	4.4–23.3 million	124,973	46,516	1.75	89.0
2087	projection	10,979,799	4.5–23.8 million	125,460	46,978	1.75	89.1
2088	projection	11,063,205	4.5–23.8 million	126,150	47,380	1.75	89.2
2089	projection	11,146,919	4.5–24.1 million	126,809	47,851	1.75	89.3
2090	projection	11,230,704	4.5–24.4 million	127,259	48,384	1.75	89.4
2091	projection	11,314,392	4.5–24.5 million	127,683	48,936	1.75	89.5
2092	projection	11,397,943	4.4–24.9 million	128,177	49,527	1.75	89.6
2093	projection	11,481,359	4.4–25.3 million	128,595	50,184	1.75	89.7
2094	projection	11,564,495	4.5–25.6 million	128,993	50,927	1.74	89.8
2095	projection	11,647,289	4.6–25.9 million	129,434	51,746	1.74	89.9
2096	projection	11,729,693	4.5–26.1 million	129,941	52,636	1.74	90.0
2097	projection	11,811,688	4.5–26.3 million	130,564	53,582	1.74	90.1
2098	projection	11,893,337	4.4–26.4 million	131,183	54,651	1.74	90.2
2099	projection	11,974,482	4.4–26.5 million	131,791	55,816	1.74	90.3
2100	projection	12,055,049	4.4–26.7 million	132,347	56,986	1.74	90.4

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

Oman: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	46,160	44,324
1	49,302	47,213
2	43,894	42,051
3	41,851	40,418
4	45,804	44,017
5	46,873	45,264
6	47,317	45,916
7	48,663	47,000
8	49,546	47,600
9	49,876	48,049
10	49,256	47,279
11	48,094	45,921
12	45,865	44,018
13	42,956	41,252
14	39,742	38,298
15	37,692	36,290
16	36,729	35,524
17	34,732	33,185
18	31,814	30,328
19	29,328	28,712
20	28,756	27,882
21	42,915	29,358
22	63,415	31,176
23	79,785	34,177
24	76,121	32,993
25	75,424	34,253
26	81,143	34,763
27	80,184	35,504
28	83,036	36,106
29	89,177	37,062
30	92,456	38,505
31	95,914	40,604
32	90,869	40,949
33	103,386	43,528
34	103,300	42,608
35	112,940	44,295
36	103,637	42,922
37	94,818	41,350
38	101,715	40,993
39	88,308	38,538
40	85,018	38,002
41	87,274	36,978
42	69,994	33,760
43	74,602	33,222
44	59,853	30,362
45	56,848	28,200
46	53,246	26,856
47	46,249	25,286
48	46,088	23,768
49	38,752	21,229
50	35,892	19,148
51	35,172	17,646
52	29,660	15,366
53	30,062	13,938
54	24,528	12,529
55	22,674	11,962
56	20,131	10,846
57	17,435	9,999
58	16,317	9,481
59	14,138	8,654
60	12,477	8,572
61	11,642	8,512
62	9,772	7,706
63	10,178	7,517
64	8,849	6,851
65	8,580	7,524
66	7,821	7,340
67	6,029	5,976
68	5,002	5,612
69	4,142	5,086
70	3,680	4,562
71	3,697	4,362
72	3,536	3,980
73	3,542	3,900
74	3,270	3,576
75	3,120	3,358
76	2,886	3,086
77	2,666	2,856
78	2,354	2,658
79	2,050	2,321
80	1,802	2,093
81	1,632	1,916
82	1,406	1,702
83	1,292	1,542
84	1,065	1,319
85	869	1,172
86	762	976
87	631	839
88	525	728
89	398	593
90	320	483
91	253	406
92	186	320
93	154	260
94	100	185
95	70	140
96	56	104
97	30	80
98	30	66
99	15	39
100+	10	58

OMN · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Oman, 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.

OMN · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Oman

In Oman the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 3,641,120 of them.

100 aged 15–64

35 children

4 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 94 years: 2007–2100.

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

OMN · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Oman, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Oman gains 120,779 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 61,907 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 10,000 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 492,609 (2011) and the most it lost was 171,635 (2020).

In 2024, 2,283,366 people living in Oman had been born in another country, 43 of every 100 people there, against 30 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Oman

Of every 100 babies born in Oman in 2023, 1 had a mother under 20, 68 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 31 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 15 under 20 and 18 aged 35 or older.

1950
15 · 67 · 18

2023
1 · 68 · 31

2050 · projected
0 · 64 · 36

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: 85,065
Average age when women have a baby: 31.7 years; 29.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 6; 124 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Oman by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	619	1,080	348	6	8	11
15–19	2,870	4,983	3,779	797	518	582
20–24	6,122	10,116	15,708	10,392	10,652	11,270
25–29	5,687	9,381	15,443	23,035	26,549	35,383
30–34	4,235	7,275	9,848	24,405	29,751	41,768
35–39	2,746	4,361	6,543	18,799	26,826	32,624
40–44	1,133	1,752	2,237	6,795	9,755	10,038
45–49	313	486	481	816	729	655
50–54	18	29	22	20	29	16
All babies	23,743	39,463	54,409	85,065	104,817	132,347

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

OMN · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Oman

In Oman, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 63.2 (95% range 62.5–64.0), out of 72.5 in all. That leaves 9.3 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

63.6 in full health, 11.3 not: 74.9 years

Men

62.7 in full health, 8.2 not: 70.9 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: 63.6 healthy years of 74.9. Men: 62.7 of 70.9. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 65.5.

OMN · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Oman

At the end of 2025, Oman was hosting 703 people who had crossed a border into it, about 0.1 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad703
Oman nationals abroad176

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 20 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Oman living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 42 people from Oman asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

OMN · of every 100 people

How people live in Oman

Of every 100 people in Oman in 2025, 45 lived in a city, 35 in a town or suburb and 20 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 4.7 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

OMN · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Oman went in school

Of every 100 adults in Oman in 2020, 9 never went to school and 54 finished upper secondary or went further.

9 never went to school 9 some primary 16 finished primary 12 finished lower secondary 28 finished upper secondary 26 studied after school

The young went further: 1.7 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 64.7 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 0.7 against 22.1).

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2045; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2075.

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

OMN · cities · 2025

Cities in Oman

Oman had 12 cities in 2025, home to 2.5 million people. The largest, Muscat, holds 14 of every 100 people in Oman.

Muscat780,545
Seeb630,072
Salalah279,161
Sohar154,765
Dahariz park99,668
Al Amerat98,300
Al-Buraimi91,315
Al-Rustaq81,798
Barka73,222
Ibri67,005

How to read this: one bar for each of the 10 largest cities, 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 Oman 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.