East Asia & Pacific · capital Koror
Palau
#215 by population · High income · ISO PLW
Population right now
17,638
-0.1 net per day · 1 birth every 167,168.2 s
·anchor 17,663 on 1 Jul 2025
·0.000% of the world
👶 Births today
0
0% of the way to the next birth · 0 while you've been here
⚰️ Deaths today
0
0% of the way to the next death · 0 while you've been here
🧳 Net migration / yr
−3
5-yr avg from 2025
📈 Net growth / day
+0
-0.12% per year, from births − deaths + migration
Profile
Birth rate
10.69 /1,000
2024
Death rate
11.73 /1,000
2024
Fertility
1.88 births/woman
Life expectancy
69.4 yrs
Aged 0–14
17.9%
Aged 65+
11.8%
Urban
79.3%
Land area
460 km²
Density
38.4 /km²
GDP / capita
$19,532
2025
Trend
Population 2015–2025
Same region
Largest neighbours
How these numbers are made. Nobody counts people in real time.
Each figure is recomputed every frame from a World Bank anchor and rate:
pop(now) = 17,663 − 0.0000/s × elapsed since 1 Jul 2025
births/day = 1 (crude birth rate 10.69/1,000, 2024)
deaths/day = 1 (crude death rate 11.73/1,000, 2024)
Births and deaths are estimates for a hypothetical average day; they do not reflect
seasonality, and the migration figure is a 5-year average. World Bank's separately
published growth rate is -0.18%/yr; the rate shown above is derived
from the components so it always agrees with the counter. Full method →