World population/Western Sahara
Africa
Population of Western Sahara
610,822
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#172
world rank
0.01%
of world population
+1.56%
yearly change
+9,518
people this year
9,008
births a year
4,031
deaths a year
How the figure for Western Sahara is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Western Sahara at 610,822 on 1 July 2026, and projects 620,340 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 Western Sahara at number 172 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.01 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 9,008 births and 4,031 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.