World population/Gambia
Africa
Population of Gambia
2,884,086
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#141
world rank
0.03%
of world population
+2.14%
yearly change
+61,800
people this year
82,634
births a year
17,811
deaths a year
How the figure for Gambia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Gambia at 2,884,086 on 1 July 2026, and projects 2,945,886 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 Gambia at number 141 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.03 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 82,634 births and 17,811 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 Africa
Ranked by population.