World population/Saint Helena
Africa
Population of Saint Helena
5,169
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#232
world rank
0.00%
of world population
-0.97%
yearly change
-50
people this year
37
births a year
91
deaths a year
How the figure for Saint Helena is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Saint Helena at 5,169 on 1 July 2026, and projects 5,119 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 Saint Helena at number 232 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 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 37 births and 91 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
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