COUNTRY / INDICATOR
French Polynesia Population
French Polynesia population: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SP.POP.TOTL| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 282.465 | 658 |
| 2024 | 281.807 | 689 |
| 2023 | 281.118 | 740 |
| 2022 | 280.378 | 586 |
| 2021 | 279.792 | 583 |
| 2020 | 279.209 | 175 |
| 2019 | 279.034 | -781 |
| 2018 | 279.815 | -272 |
| 2017 | 280.087 | 909 |
| 2016 | 279.178 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
Source organization: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesFrench Polynesia recorded 282.465 people in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the population increased by 658.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 280.288; the minimum was 279.034 in 2019 and the maximum was 282.465 in 2025.
French Polynesia ranks 180 out of 217 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for East Asia & Pacific.
It is also below the available average for the High income group.
Demographic scale and market size.