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

Palestine population

UN name: State of Palestine

Palestine population now

5,719,274

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: 5.5–6.0 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 5,409,202

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 5.69279 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 5.5–6.0 million
Median age: 21.3
Aged 65+: 3.9%

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PSE · 1950–2100 · in brief

Palestine in numbers

Palestine had 5,409,202 people in mid-2023, the 121st-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.07% of the world's people. That is 5.7 times its 1950 population of 945 thousand.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 11.5 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 3.1 million to 57.8 million.

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

The median age was 17.1 in 1950 and 20.8 in 2023; the projection has 44.2 in 2100. 3.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 24.7% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2086 at 6.9 million.

Among countries it ranks 121st in 2023, 112th in 2050 and 95th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Slovakia in 2025, Finland in 2026 and Norway in 2026. It is overtaken by the Central African Republic in 2026, Oman in 2027 and Mauritania in 2032.

Population, mid-2023: 5,409,202
Rank by population, 2023: 121 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.07%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.96% · +103,932 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 898
Land area, 2023: 6,025 km²
Births, 2023: 146,384
Deaths, 2023: 38,937
Net migration, 2023: −24,996
Children per woman, 2023: 3.31
Median age, 2023: 20.8 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 65.2 years
In a city, 2025: 74 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 944,623
Projected, mid-2050: 8,451,891
Projected, mid-2100: 11,482,186

PSE · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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Show the numbers: Palestine, 1950–2100

Palestine: 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	940,731		45,680	20,017	7.84	45.8
1951	estimate	948,516		46,330	19,911	7.84	46.0
1952	estimate	957,376		47,003	19,835	7.84	46.3
1953	estimate	967,236		47,726	19,766	7.83	46.6
1954	estimate	978,078		48,578	19,702	7.83	46.9
1955	estimate	989,953		49,418	19,632	7.82	47.2
1956	estimate	1,002,811		50,346	19,550	7.82	47.6
1957	estimate	1,016,684		51,298	19,451	7.81	48.0
1958	estimate	1,031,569		52,292	19,337	7.81	48.4
1959	estimate	1,047,478		53,306	19,207	7.80	48.8
1960	estimate	1,064,304		54,254	19,038	7.79	49.3
1961	estimate	1,081,857		55,203	18,837	7.79	49.8
1962	estimate	1,099,998		56,266	18,611	7.79	50.4
1963	estimate	1,118,681		57,141	18,348	7.78	51.0
1964	estimate	1,136,255		58,004	18,047	7.78	51.5
1965	estimate	1,145,084		58,451	17,581	7.78	52.2
1966	estimate	1,149,536		58,525	17,036	7.75	52.8
1967	estimate	1,143,252		58,112	17,705	7.74	50.9
1968	estimate	1,128,388		57,195	15,529	7.71	54.1
1969	estimate	1,115,095		56,345	14,771	7.68	54.7
1970	estimate	1,111,077		55,966	14,166	7.65	55.4
1971	estimate	1,121,482		56,245	13,747	7.61	56.0
1972	estimate	1,146,745		57,339	13,487	7.59	56.7
1973	estimate	1,182,755		58,962	13,211	7.55	57.6
1974	estimate	1,221,762		60,664	13,250	7.52	58.0
1975	estimate	1,260,505		62,295	13,063	7.48	58.7
1976	estimate	1,298,136		63,868	12,836	7.44	59.4
1977	estimate	1,334,653		65,158	12,589	7.38	60.1
1978	estimate	1,370,772		66,419	12,328	7.33	60.8
1979	estimate	1,408,220		67,895	12,038	7.28	61.5
1980	estimate	1,448,012		68,911	11,756	7.18	62.2
1981	estimate	1,490,105		70,622	11,539	7.13	62.8
1982	estimate	1,535,302		72,519	11,344	7.09	63.5
1983	estimate	1,586,678		74,670	11,154	7.04	64.1
1984	estimate	1,650,877		77,438	11,084	7.00	64.7
1985	estimate	1,726,332		80,595	11,110	6.94	65.3
1986	estimate	1,764,181		82,265	10,933	6.91	65.7
1987	estimate	1,814,439		84,707	10,767	6.89	66.3
1988	estimate	1,939,080		90,564	11,110	6.87	66.7
1989	estimate	2,015,529		94,334	11,151	6.84	67.1
1990	estimate	2,095,687		98,290	11,050	6.81	67.8
1991	estimate	2,182,447		102,013	11,117	6.75	68.2
1992	estimate	2,275,461		105,345	11,295	6.65	68.5
1993	estimate	2,373,924		107,735	11,427	6.50	68.8
1994	estimate	2,476,208		109,792	11,330	6.33	69.3
1995	estimate	2,582,110		111,597	11,473	6.16	69.6
1996	estimate	2,690,992		113,365	11,511	5.99	70.0
1997	estimate	2,802,651		115,022	11,587	5.82	70.3
1998	estimate	2,916,500		117,709	11,792	5.69	70.6
1999	estimate	3,009,276		119,762	11,952	5.58	70.8
2000	estimate	3,103,228		121,414	12,796	5.46	70.3
2001	estimate	3,200,357		123,288	13,769	5.34	69.8
2002	estimate	3,284,213		124,385	13,044	5.22	70.9
2003	estimate	3,360,515		124,384	13,296	5.06	71.0
2004	estimate	3,435,626		125,515	13,566	4.97	71.1
2005	estimate	3,514,729		126,494	12,996	4.87	72.0
2006	estimate	3,600,072		127,114	13,621	4.74	71.8
2007	estimate	3,690,120		127,280	13,804	4.63	72.1
2008	estimate	3,783,261		129,753	14,207	4.51	72.2
2009	estimate	3,874,820		133,397	14,643	4.44	72.3
2010	estimate	3,967,672		138,755	13,912	4.43	73.3
2011	estimate	4,066,159		140,283	14,121	4.30	73.6
2012	estimate	4,165,656		140,669	14,436	4.15	73.7
2013	estimate	4,264,970		141,971	14,418	4.05	74.1
2014	estimate	4,365,551		144,762	17,024	4.00	72.8
2015	estimate	4,466,212		148,625	15,003	3.98	74.6
2016	estimate	4,576,918		149,516	15,112	3.89	74.9
2017	estimate	4,688,560		149,076	15,264	3.77	75.2
2018	estimate	4,796,925		148,084	15,603	3.67	75.4
2019	estimate	4,904,260		147,286	15,537	3.59	75.8
2020	estimate	5,011,276		146,398	17,193	3.51	75.0
2021	estimate	5,128,108		146,355	19,536	3.44	73.9
2022	estimate	5,242,563		146,294	15,871	3.38	76.7
2023	estimate	5,367,977		146,384	38,937	3.31	65.2
2024	estimate	5,450,426		145,440	32,257	3.25	69.2
2025	projection	5,540,460	5.5–5.6 million	144,890	23,414	3.19	73.1
2026	projection	5,638,786	5.5–5.8 million	144,467	16,412	3.13	77.4
2027	projection	5,746,794	5.5–6.0 million	144,381	16,885	3.07	77.6
2028	projection	5,853,352	5.4–6.3 million	144,654	17,372	3.02	77.8
2029	projection	5,959,810	5.4–6.5 million	145,015	17,872	2.98	77.9
2030	projection	6,067,574	5.4–6.8 million	145,600	18,386	2.93	78.1
2031	projection	6,177,054	5.3–7.0 million	146,485	18,906	2.89	78.3
2032	projection	6,288,152	5.3–7.3 million	147,579	19,456	2.85	78.4
2033	projection	6,400,253	5.3–7.6 million	148,904	20,033	2.81	78.6
2034	projection	6,516,465	5.2–8.0 million	150,469	20,641	2.78	78.7
2035	projection	6,633,050	5.2–8.2 million	152,051	21,241	2.75	78.9
2036	projection	6,752,420	5.2–8.6 million	153,364	21,885	2.71	79.1
2037	projection	6,869,910	5.1–9.0 million	154,611	22,522	2.68	79.2
2038	projection	6,988,763	5.1–9.4 million	155,731	23,172	2.65	79.4
2039	projection	7,107,255	5.0–9.8 million	156,654	23,846	2.62	79.5
2040	projection	7,230,695	5.0–10.2 million	157,533	24,539	2.59	79.7
2041	projection	7,352,957	5.0–10.6 million	158,004	25,267	2.56	79.9
2042	projection	7,475,333	4.9–11.0 million	158,210	26,018	2.54	80.0
2043	projection	7,597,127	4.9–11.4 million	158,065	26,785	2.51	80.2
2044	projection	7,717,049	4.9–11.9 million	157,809	27,531	2.48	80.3
2045	projection	7,836,063	4.8–12.4 million	157,378	28,308	2.45	80.5
2046	projection	7,954,127	4.8–12.8 million	156,753	29,119	2.43	80.7
2047	projection	8,067,838	4.7–13.3 million	155,911	29,924	2.41	80.8
2048	projection	8,179,637	4.7–13.9 million	154,925	30,761	2.38	81.0
2049	projection	8,288,779	4.6–14.5 million	153,941	31,653	2.36	81.1
2050	projection	8,397,460	4.6–14.9 million	152,872	32,522	2.34	81.3
2051	projection	8,506,322	4.5–15.5 million	151,813	33,439	2.31	81.4
2052	projection	8,612,153	4.5–16.0 million	150,905	34,402	2.29	81.6
2053	projection	8,716,148	4.4–16.5 million	150,077	35,409	2.27	81.7
2054	projection	8,817,175	4.4–16.9 million	149,279	36,393	2.26	81.9
2055	projection	8,913,544	4.3–17.3 million	148,245	37,424	2.23	82.0
2056	projection	9,008,289	4.4–17.9 million	147,531	38,524	2.22	82.2
2057	projection	9,105,233	4.3–18.4 million	147,170	39,619	2.20	82.3
2058	projection	9,200,953	4.3–19.1 million	146,896	40,793	2.19	82.4
2059	projection	9,292,523	4.3–19.6 million	146,382	41,965	2.17	82.6
2060	projection	9,385,515	4.3–20.5 million	146,074	43,158	2.15	82.7
2061	projection	9,480,491	4.2–21.3 million	146,105	44,377	2.13	82.9
2062	projection	9,574,559	4.1–21.9 million	146,062	45,649	2.12	83.0
2063	projection	9,662,652	4.1–22.9 million	145,996	46,966	2.11	83.2
2064	projection	9,752,039	4.1–23.5 million	145,845	48,344	2.09	83.3
2065	projection	9,839,405	4.1–24.1 million	145,665	49,728	2.08	83.4
2066	projection	9,925,188	4.0–24.6 million	145,663	51,176	2.07	83.5
2067	projection	10,005,998	4.0–25.3 million	145,330	52,689	2.06	83.7
2068	projection	10,090,094	3.9–26.2 million	145,084	54,206	2.05	83.8
2069	projection	10,167,741	3.8–26.6 million	144,253	55,740	2.03	83.9
2070	projection	10,246,225	3.8–27.5 million	143,731	57,285	2.02	84.1
2071	projection	10,323,414	3.7–28.2 million	143,019	58,875	2.01	84.2
2072	projection	10,400,696	3.6–28.9 million	142,299	60,499	2.00	84.3
2073	projection	10,470,857	3.6–30.3 million	141,473	62,111	1.99	84.4
2074	projection	10,538,102	3.5–30.9 million	140,584	63,706	1.98	84.6
2075	projection	10,603,196	3.5–32.1 million	139,538	65,279	1.97	84.7
2076	projection	10,669,313	3.4–33.1 million	138,560	66,879	1.96	84.8
2077	projection	10,731,672	3.4–34.5 million	137,573	68,442	1.95	85.0
2078	projection	10,789,872	3.5–35.9 million	136,504	70,065	1.94	85.1
2079	projection	10,843,841	3.5–36.7 million	135,541	71,581	1.94	85.2
2080	projection	10,893,170	3.5–37.9 million	134,304	73,168	1.93	85.3
2081	projection	10,944,796	3.4–39.3 million	133,453	74,670	1.92	85.4
2082	projection	10,996,354	3.4–40.5 million	132,571	76,225	1.92	85.5
2083	projection	11,041,488	3.4–41.2 million	131,543	77,604	1.91	85.7
2084	projection	11,081,984	3.4–41.9 million	130,490	79,071	1.90	85.8
2085	projection	11,121,305	3.4–41.7 million	129,591	80,430	1.90	85.9
2086	projection	11,156,591	3.4–42.4 million	128,728	81,865	1.89	86.0
2087	projection	11,190,584	3.4–43.7 million	127,910	83,253	1.88	86.1
2088	projection	11,220,820	3.3–44.0 million	127,048	84,647	1.88	86.3
2089	projection	11,252,520	3.3–45.1 million	126,411	86,012	1.87	86.4
2090	projection	11,279,268	3.3–45.7 million	125,598	87,433	1.87	86.5
2091	projection	11,306,460	3.4–46.3 million	125,001	88,892	1.86	86.6
2092	projection	11,332,519	3.3–46.4 million	124,350	90,384	1.86	86.7
2093	projection	11,357,124	3.3–47.7 million	123,752	91,889	1.85	86.8
2094	projection	11,380,398	3.3–49.3 million	123,118	93,432	1.85	86.9
2095	projection	11,399,782	3.2–50.2 million	122,409	95,018	1.84	87.0
2096	projection	11,420,244	3.2–51.9 million	121,851	96,652	1.84	87.1
2097	projection	11,436,999	3.1–53.9 million	121,273	98,311	1.83	87.2
2098	projection	11,454,567	3.1–55.4 million	120,667	99,979	1.83	87.3
2099	projection	11,468,357	3.1–57.3 million	120,037	101,659	1.83	87.4
2100	projection	11,478,655	3.1–57.8 million	119,389	103,216	1.82	87.5

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

Palestine: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	72,774	69,543
1	72,059	69,179
2	72,219	69,270
3	72,804	69,518
4	72,830	69,474
5	72,746	69,402
6	72,863	69,513
7	73,128	69,756
8	73,430	70,045
9	73,679	70,286
10	73,148	69,951
11	71,327	68,544
12	69,144	66,811
13	67,581	65,692
14	66,580	65,114
15	65,447	64,416
16	62,949	62,402
17	59,794	59,751
18	57,301	57,694
19	55,382	56,100
20	53,704	54,668
21	51,890	53,030
22	49,926	51,224
23	48,253	49,742
24	46,862	48,504
25	45,590	47,307
26	44,842	46,538
27	44,126	45,795
28	43,250	44,899
29	43,136	44,648
30	43,411	44,702
31	43,426	44,488
32	43,300	44,146
33	42,958	43,594
34	42,190	42,640
35	40,916	41,262
36	39,300	39,616
37	37,506	37,856
38	35,716	36,143
39	33,933	34,482
40	32,190	32,895
41	30,581	31,454
42	29,032	30,088
43	27,492	28,736
44	25,998	27,430
45	24,584	26,181
46	23,390	25,124
47	22,286	24,119
48	21,185	23,075
49	20,212	22,126
50	19,282	21,197
51	18,398	20,288
52	17,588	19,438
53	16,836	18,630
54	16,144	17,876
55	15,528	17,196
56	14,958	16,568
57	14,402	15,961
58	13,884	15,386
59	13,365	14,808
60	12,830	14,218
61	12,262	13,616
62	11,640	12,983
63	11,024	12,356
64	10,381	11,713
65	9,710	11,052
66	9,062	10,414
67	8,425	9,784
68	7,800	9,157
69	7,205	8,548
70	6,636	7,969
71	6,098	7,430
72	5,583	6,912
73	5,082	6,407
74	4,603	5,949
75	4,134	5,408
76	3,684	5,151
77	3,302	4,597
78	3,011	3,883
79	2,664	3,564
80	2,262	3,198
81	1,898	2,845
82	1,572	2,513
83	1,280	2,202
84	1,030	1,910
85	820	1,632
86	641	1,369
87	491	1,134
88	370	926
89	267	730
90	184	554
91	124	411
92	80	298
93	50	210
94	30	144
95	18	96
96	10	62
97	6	38
98	3	23
99	2	13
100+	1	16

PSE · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Palestine, 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.

PSE · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Palestine

On the UN's projection, Palestine will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2086: 6,879,750 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 3,128,000.

100 aged 15–64

66 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: 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

PSE · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Palestine, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Palestine loses 16,656 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 3,059 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 500 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.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 50,702 (1987), and a loss of 55,265 (1967).

In 2024, 272,481 people living in Palestine had been born in another country, 5 of every 100 people there, against 14 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Palestine

Of every 100 babies born in Palestine in 2023, 7 had a mother under 20, 81 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 12 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 13 under 20 and 17 aged 35 or older.

1950
13 · 70 · 17

2023
7 · 81 · 12

2050 · projected
5 · 82 · 13

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: 146,384
Average age when women have a baby: 28.6 years; 29.8 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 36; 128 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Palestine by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	167	134	120	0	1	0
15–19	5,856	7,788	15,562	10,046	8,355	3,611
20–24	11,246	16,208	37,627	43,118	43,727	22,889
25–29	12,193	15,953	31,028	45,485	49,232	39,280
30–34	8,279	11,401	20,807	29,591	31,662	32,884
35–39	5,728	8,280	11,951	14,589	16,683	17,322
40–44	1,826	2,236	3,997	3,375	3,043	3,182
45–49	371	288	318	177	137	182
50–54	14	7	4	3	32	39
All babies	45,680	62,295	121,414	146,384	152,872	119,389

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

PSE · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Palestine

A baby born in Palestine in 2021 could expect 73.5 years of life, 62.9 of them in full health (95% range 62.2–63.7). That leaves 10.6 years in less than full health, more than the world's 9.5: a longer life usually brings a longer stretch of illness near its end.

Women

63.8 in full health, 12.1 not: 75.9 years

Men

62.1 in full health, 9.0 not: 71.1 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: 63.8 healthy years of 75.9. Men: 62.1 of 71.1. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 65.2.

PSE · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Palestine

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

Read that as a gap in the record, not as a finding. The count reaches as far as one agency's work reaches, and no further.

In 2025, 11,930 people from Palestine asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Palestine whose claims were decided that year, 60 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

PSE · of every 100 people

How people live in Palestine

Of every 100 people in Palestine in 2025, 74 lived in a city, 21 in a town or suburb and 5 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 13.4 of every 100 do not use the internet (2023).

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

PSE · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Palestine went in school

Of every 100 adults in Palestine in 2020, 4 never went to school and 51 finished upper secondary or went further.

4 never went to school 6 some primary 13 finished primary 26 finished lower secondary 19 finished upper secondary 32 studied after school

The young went further: 0.6 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 11.6 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 0.7 against 2.7).

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2075; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2090.

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

PSE · cities · 2025

Cities in Palestine

Palestine had 13 cities in 2025, home to 4.1 million people. The largest, East Jerusalem, holds 20 of every 100 people in Palestine.

East Jerusalem1,105,567
Gaza1,038,285
Khan Yunis601,421
Hebron405,079
Deir el-Balah319,915
Nablus206,378
Tulkarm91,980
Yatta64,720
Modi'in Illit63,892
Jenin59,803

How to read this: the 10 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

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 Palestine 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.