World population/Palau
Oceania
Population of Palau
17,642
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#224
world rank
0.00%
of world population
-0.31%
yearly change
-54
people this year
184
births a year
208
deaths a year
How the figure for Palau is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Palau at 17,642 on 1 July 2026, and projects 17,588 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Palau at number 224 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.00 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 23 entries in Oceania.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 184 births and 208 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 Oceania
Ranked by population.