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Réunion population

UN name: Reunion

Réunion population now

887,275

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: 863,722–909,850.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 874,883

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 886,289; 95% range, 31 Dec: 863,722–909,850
Median age: 39.4
Aged 65+: 16.9%

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

REU · 1950–2100 · in brief

Réunion in numbers

The UN counts 874,883 people in Réunion in mid-2023, which makes it the 163rd-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.01% of the world's people. That is 3.5 times its 1950 population of 249 thousand.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2049 at 942 thousand, then falling to 852 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 432 thousand to 1.6 million.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2054; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it.

The median age was 20.0 in 1950 and 38.4 in 2023; the projection has 50.6 in 2100. 14.9% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 33.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2015 at 563 thousand; in 2023 it was 559 thousand.

By size it is the 163rd country in 2023; the projection puts it 165th in 2050 and 166th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Mauritius in 2069 and Estonia in 2091. It is overtaken by the Comoros in 2025, the Solomon Islands in 2028 and Guyana in 2051.

Population, mid-2023: 874,883
Rank by population, 2023: 163 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.38% · +3,342 people
Births, 2023: 12,003
Deaths, 2023: 4,797
Net migration, 2023: −3,625
Children per woman, 2023: 2.17
Median age, 2023: 38.4 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 83.5 years
In a city, 2025: 39 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 249,214
Projected, mid-2050: 941,413
Projected, mid-2100: 852,214

REU · 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. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Réunion, 1950–2100

Réunion: 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	244,526		12,571	4,927	6.96	47.6
1951	estimate	253,902		12,917	4,880	6.97	48.6
1952	estimate	263,121		13,147	4,723	6.92	50.1
1953	estimate	273,274		13,468	4,597	6.88	51.5
1954	estimate	283,333		13,514	4,409	6.74	53.0
1955	estimate	294,937		13,969	4,328	6.77	54.1
1956	estimate	305,916		14,008	4,272	6.60	54.9
1957	estimate	317,251		14,256	4,380	6.53	54.9
1958	estimate	329,191		13,915	4,368	6.18	55.3
1959	estimate	340,935		14,154	4,262	6.11	56.2
1960	estimate	353,162		14,581	4,054	6.11	57.7
1961	estimate	365,950		14,891	3,934	6.06	58.8
1962	estimate	378,201		15,552	3,916	6.17	59.4
1963	estimate	389,487		16,117	3,933	6.27	59.8
1964	estimate	401,166		16,243	3,926	6.17	60.3
1965	estimate	413,168		16,628	3,887	6.15	61.0
1966	estimate	424,254		16,633	3,865	5.98	61.4
1967	estimate	435,205		16,287	3,763	5.67	62.1
1968	estimate	445,417		16,183	3,729	5.46	62.4
1969	estimate	455,342		15,567	3,653	5.04	62.9
1970	estimate	464,779		13,945	3,561	4.30	63.2
1971	estimate	473,397		13,690	3,484	4.04	63.7
1972	estimate	481,805		13,893	3,446	3.92	64.3
1973	estimate	490,256		14,098	3,419	3.81	64.8
1974	estimate	498,663		14,360	3,384	3.73	65.3
1975	estimate	506,992		14,544	3,338	3.65	66.0
1976	estimate	515,611		14,486	3,295	3.53	66.7
1977	estimate	524,258		14,384	3,245	3.41	67.4
1978	estimate	532,860		14,184	3,197	3.28	68.1
1979	estimate	541,304		13,795	3,152	3.12	68.8
1980	estimate	549,431		13,006	3,132	2.87	69.4
1981	estimate	556,837		13,496	3,065	2.91	70.2
1982	estimate	565,117		12,343	2,996	2.60	71.0
1983	estimate	574,160		12,605	2,970	2.56	71.6
1984	estimate	584,304		13,013	2,963	2.58	72.2
1985	estimate	595,062		12,865	3,009	2.51	72.6
1986	estimate	605,760		12,380	3,031	2.39	73.0
1987	estimate	616,006		12,377	3,093	2.37	73.3
1988	estimate	626,202		12,380	3,125	2.36	73.6
1989	estimate	636,318		12,588	3,198	2.40	73.9
1990	estimate	646,652		13,469	3,257	2.57	74.2
1991	estimate	658,492		13,272	3,332	2.57	74.5
1992	estimate	670,417		13,285	3,387	2.54	74.8
1993	estimate	682,423		12,608	3,454	2.39	75.0
1994	estimate	693,777		12,433	3,498	2.33	75.4
1995	estimate	704,953		12,292	3,558	2.27	75.7
1996	estimate	715,957		12,371	3,617	2.26	76.0
1997	estimate	726,946		13,005	3,681	2.34	76.3
1998	estimate	738,477		13,128	3,746	2.31	76.6
1999	estimate	749,653		13,567	3,833	2.34	76.8
2000	estimate	758,575		14,812	3,924	2.50	77.0
2001	estimate	767,706		14,869	4,017	2.45	77.2
2002	estimate	776,765		14,904	4,085	2.41	77.3
2003	estimate	785,841		15,287	4,150	2.43	77.6
2004	estimate	795,280		15,634	4,222	2.45	77.8
2005	estimate	798,721		15,869	4,169	2.49	78.0
2006	estimate	801,727		15,288	4,030	2.44	78.3
2007	estimate	811,632		15,276	3,893	2.47	78.9
2008	estimate	825,826		15,418	3,845	2.47	79.5
2009	estimate	835,150		14,885	3,823	2.37	80.0
2010	estimate	841,785		13,749	3,807	2.19	80.5
2011	estimate	847,158		13,703	3,783	2.19	81.0
2012	estimate	846,406		13,879	3,819	2.23	81.3
2013	estimate	843,711		13,625	3,871	2.21	81.6
2014	estimate	851,480		13,582	3,994	2.24	81.8
2015	estimate	865,860		13,404	4,167	2.23	81.9
2016	estimate	864,164		13,230	4,231	2.22	82.0
2017	estimate	861,555		12,962	4,334	2.23	82.1
2018	estimate	855,953		12,076	4,472	2.17	82.2
2019	estimate	857,931		11,883	4,675	2.13	82.3
2020	estimate	856,724		11,836	4,666	2.15	82.6
2021	estimate	866,168		12,172	5,429	2.19	81.5
2022	estimate	869,990		12,124	5,589	2.19	81.5
2023	estimate	873,091		12,003	4,797	2.17	83.5
2024	estimate	876,675		11,711	4,946	2.15	83.7
2025	projection	880,506	873,126–887,306	11,493	5,102	2.13	83.8
2026	projection	884,305	868,859–898,733	11,325	5,270	2.12	83.9
2027	projection	888,291	863,722–909,850	11,197	5,437	2.10	84.0
2028	projection	892,126	859,458–920,739	11,081	5,616	2.08	84.2
2029	projection	895,777	854,807–933,645	11,004	5,796	2.07	84.3
2030	projection	899,241	851,766–943,644	10,959	5,975	2.05	84.4
2031	projection	902,497	848,603–954,637	10,934	6,164	2.04	84.5
2032	projection	906,004	844,129–965,748	10,953	6,355	2.03	84.7
2033	projection	909,288	836,396–975,851	10,982	6,547	2.01	84.8
2034	projection	912,352	834,614–989,600	11,024	6,740	2.00	84.9
2035	projection	915,252	0.8–1.0 million	11,098	6,940	1.99	85.0
2036	projection	918,141	0.8–1.0 million	11,174	7,140	1.99	85.1
2037	projection	921,093	0.8–1.0 million	11,258	7,340	1.98	85.3
2038	projection	923,647	0.8–1.0 million	11,321	7,541	1.97	85.4
2039	projection	926,219	0.8–1.0 million	11,384	7,745	1.97	85.5
2040	projection	928,368	0.8–1.1 million	11,400	7,944	1.96	85.6
2041	projection	930,588	0.8–1.1 million	11,411	8,147	1.95	85.7
2042	projection	932,639	0.8–1.1 million	11,417	8,357	1.95	85.8
2043	projection	934,704	0.8–1.1 million	11,386	8,557	1.94	86.0
2044	projection	936,604	0.8–1.1 million	11,317	8,751	1.93	86.1
2045	projection	938,323	0.8–1.1 million	11,244	8,941	1.93	86.2
2046	projection	939,450	0.8–1.1 million	11,146	9,132	1.93	86.3
2047	projection	940,363	0.8–1.1 million	11,028	9,310	1.92	86.5
2048	projection	941,201	0.8–1.1 million	10,896	9,480	1.92	86.6
2049	projection	941,511	0.8–1.1 million	10,761	9,650	1.91	86.7
2050	projection	941,605	0.8–1.2 million	10,624	9,801	1.91	86.8
2051	projection	941,221	0.8–1.2 million	10,479	9,945	1.90	86.9
2052	projection	940,546	0.7–1.2 million	10,331	10,072	1.90	87.0
2053	projection	939,797	0.7–1.2 million	10,199	10,187	1.89	87.1
2054	projection	938,673	0.7–1.2 million	10,072	10,284	1.89	87.2
2055	projection	937,448	0.7–1.2 million	9,956	10,373	1.88	87.3
2056	projection	935,948	0.7–1.2 million	9,856	10,426	1.88	87.5
2057	projection	934,458	0.7–1.2 million	9,758	10,478	1.88	87.6
2058	projection	932,512	0.7–1.2 million	9,675	10,512	1.87	87.7
2059	projection	930,651	0.7–1.2 million	9,615	10,531	1.87	87.8
2060	projection	928,794	0.7–1.2 million	9,562	10,531	1.87	87.9
2061	projection	926,686	0.7–1.2 million	9,506	10,519	1.86	88.0
2062	projection	924,777	0.7–1.2 million	9,459	10,485	1.86	88.1
2063	projection	922,797	0.7–1.3 million	9,426	10,441	1.85	88.2
2064	projection	920,862	0.7–1.3 million	9,391	10,391	1.85	88.3
2065	projection	918,927	0.6–1.3 million	9,375	10,335	1.85	88.5
2066	projection	916,969	0.6–1.3 million	9,362	10,270	1.84	88.6
2067	projection	914,985	0.6–1.3 million	9,350	10,190	1.84	88.7
2068	projection	913,107	0.6–1.3 million	9,339	10,112	1.84	88.8
2069	projection	911,293	0.6–1.3 million	9,340	10,044	1.83	88.9
2070	projection	909,772	0.6–1.3 million	9,332	9,966	1.83	89.0
2071	projection	908,025	0.6–1.3 million	9,328	9,892	1.83	89.1
2072	projection	906,440	0.6–1.3 million	9,313	9,819	1.82	89.2
2073	projection	905,033	0.6–1.3 million	9,302	9,742	1.82	89.3
2074	projection	903,618	0.6–1.4 million	9,283	9,684	1.82	89.4
2075	projection	902,270	0.6–1.4 million	9,256	9,620	1.82	89.5
2076	projection	901,077	0.6–1.4 million	9,213	9,554	1.81	89.6
2077	projection	899,721	0.6–1.4 million	9,166	9,499	1.81	89.7
2078	projection	898,575	0.6–1.4 million	9,101	9,447	1.81	89.8
2079	projection	897,229	0.6–1.4 million	9,041	9,397	1.81	89.9
2080	projection	895,764	0.6–1.4 million	8,958	9,345	1.81	90.0
2081	projection	894,254	0.6–1.4 million	8,868	9,288	1.81	90.1
2082	projection	892,783	0.5–1.4 million	8,766	9,241	1.80	90.3
2083	projection	891,303	0.5–1.5 million	8,666	9,198	1.80	90.3
2084	projection	889,900	0.5–1.5 million	8,560	9,167	1.80	90.5
2085	projection	888,240	0.5–1.5 million	8,451	9,136	1.79	90.5
2086	projection	886,614	0.5–1.5 million	8,353	9,115	1.79	90.6
2087	projection	884,759	0.5–1.5 million	8,263	9,096	1.79	90.7
2088	projection	883,001	0.5–1.5 million	8,181	9,089	1.79	90.8
2089	projection	881,099	0.5–1.5 million	8,099	9,088	1.79	90.9
2090	projection	879,028	0.5–1.5 million	8,021	9,087	1.79	91.0
2091	projection	877,004	0.5–1.5 million	7,956	9,114	1.79	91.1
2092	projection	874,892	0.5–1.5 million	7,890	9,146	1.79	91.2
2093	projection	872,630	0.5–1.5 million	7,833	9,186	1.79	91.3
2094	projection	870,138	0.5–1.6 million	7,787	9,236	1.79	91.4
2095	projection	867,636	0.5–1.6 million	7,739	9,289	1.79	91.5
2096	projection	865,051	0.5–1.6 million	7,700	9,359	1.79	91.6
2097	projection	862,487	0.4–1.6 million	7,665	9,445	1.79	91.7
2098	projection	859,705	0.4–1.6 million	7,635	9,532	1.79	91.8
2099	projection	856,765	0.4–1.6 million	7,604	9,615	1.79	91.9
2100	projection	853,792	0.4–1.6 million	7,577	9,701	1.78	92.0

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

Réunion: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	5,738	5,573
1	5,798	5,632
2	5,893	5,728
3	5,790	5,677
4	5,768	5,624
5	5,816	5,638
6	5,902	5,599
7	5,974	5,638
8	5,967	5,724
9	6,024	5,944
10	6,164	6,070
11	6,402	6,188
12	6,366	6,252
13	6,366	6,413
14	6,443	6,525
15	6,555	6,424
16	6,640	6,576
17	6,724	6,764
18	6,946	6,712
19	6,879	6,488
20	6,676	6,408
21	6,506	6,341
22	6,179	5,832
23	5,724	5,451
24	5,394	5,310
25	5,009	5,092
26	4,422	4,958
27	4,130	4,671
28	4,011	4,691
29	3,928	4,784
30	3,856	4,562
31	3,766	4,680
32	4,068	5,048
33	4,382	5,309
34	4,428	5,532
35	4,642	5,648
36	4,822	5,846
37	4,797	6,000
38	4,718	5,826
39	4,722	5,880
40	4,677	6,070
41	4,737	6,065
42	4,855	6,011
43	4,706	5,903
44	4,815	6,017
45	4,990	6,272
46	5,053	6,085
47	4,996	5,788
48	4,886	5,679
49	4,902	5,719
50	5,063	5,962
51	5,254	5,992
52	5,142	6,072
53	5,343	6,150
54	5,691	6,192
55	5,515	6,170
56	5,702	6,242
57	6,006	6,525
58	5,891	6,634
59	5,844	6,654
60	5,993	6,592
61	6,217	6,627
62	6,089	6,557
63	5,757	6,137
64	5,632	5,674
65	5,207	5,552
66	4,788	5,292
67	4,560	4,967
68	4,435	4,888
69	4,395	4,848
70	4,120	4,726
71	3,891	4,463
72	3,770	4,322
73	3,596	4,126
74	3,186	3,688
75	2,795	3,399
76	2,514	3,211
77	2,278	2,964
78	2,212	2,840
79	2,120	2,603
80	1,751	2,272
81	1,494	2,032
82	1,420	1,968
83	1,354	1,979
84	1,166	1,770
85	1,054	1,535
86	940	1,372
87	684	1,253
88	604	1,208
89	554	1,067
90	450	840
91	357	708
92	294	627
93	226	500
94	158	388
95	111	298
96	77	225
97	54	172
98	42	132
99	33	102
100+	76	248

REU · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Réunion, 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.

REU · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Réunion

Réunion had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2015: 563,050 people aged 15–64, against 559,089 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

33 children

23 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 3 years: 2001–2003.

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

REU · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Réunion, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Réunion loses 2,616 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 1,882 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: 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 4,782 (2014), and a loss of 14,222 (2017).

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Réunion

Of every 100 babies born in Réunion in 2023, 4 had a mother under 20, 70 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 26 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 6 under 20 and 22 aged 35 or older.

1950
6 · 72 · 22

2023
4 · 70 · 26

2050 · projected
1 · 64 · 35

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: 12,003
Average age when women have a baby: 30.4 years; 30.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 15; 66 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Réunion by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	4	11	12	3	0	0
15–19	823	1,548	1,496	492	102	46
20–24	2,940	4,858	4,174	1,914	938	587
25–29	3,552	3,976	3,982	2,974	2,513	1,911
30–34	2,518	2,257	2,864	3,493	3,307	2,630
35–39	1,839	1,308	1,749	2,370	2,827	1,849
40–44	801	518	505	697	831	483
45–49	92	65	30	59	104	69
50–54	2	3	0	1	2	2
All babies	12,571	14,544	14,812	12,003	10,624	7,577

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

REU · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Réunion

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

REU · of every 100 people

How people live in Réunion

Of every 100 people in Réunion in 2025, 39 lived in a city, 49 in a town or suburb and 12 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

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

REU · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Réunion went in school

Of every 100 adults in Réunion in 2020, 4 never went to school and 52 finished upper secondary or went further.

4 never went to school 7 some primary 24 finished primary 13 finished lower secondary 33 finished upper secondary 19 studied after school

Compare two generations. Aged 60–64, 3.4 of every 100 women and 3.7 of every 100 men never went to school; aged 25–29, 0.7 and 0.7.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2065; 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.

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REU · cities · 2025

Cities in Réunion

Réunion had 4 cities in 2025, home to 346,767 people.

Saint-Denis142,023
Le Port92,930
Le Tampon57,355
Saint-André54,459

How to read this: the 4 largest cities in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

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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 Réunion 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.