World population/Bahrain
Asia
Population of Bahrain
1,675,573
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#153
world rank
0.02%
of world population
+1.65%
yearly change
+27,611
people this year
19,865
births a year
3,741
deaths a year
How the figure for Bahrain is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Bahrain at 1,675,573 on 1 July 2026, and projects 1,703,184 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Bahrain at number 153 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.02 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 19,865 births and 3,741 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.