World population/Libya
Africa
Population of Libya
7,539,848
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#105
world rank
0.09%
of world population
+1.16%
yearly change
+87,646
people this year
118,954
births a year
37,074
deaths a year
How the figure for Libya is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Libya at 7,539,848 on 1 July 2026, and projects 7,627,494 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 Libya at number 105 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.09 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 118,954 births and 37,074 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.