Population in São Tomé and Principe

Nearby in the ranking

183. New Caledonia 289,879
184. Barbados 282,347
185. Fr. Polynesia 281,125
186. São Tomé and Principe 230,882
187. Samoa 216,673
188. Curaçao 185,437
189. Saint Lucia 179,291

More about São Tomé and Principe

• Population growth
• Births per woman
• Typical age
• Living in cities
• Human Development Index
• Women’s vs men’s development
• People per household
• People over 65
• Children under 15
• Women’s age at first marriage
• Mothers’ age at first birth
• All figures for São Tomé and Principe

About the data

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.

Unit

people

Years

1800–2023

Data as of

2026-09-28

Source

Our World in Data

License

CC BY 4.0

Credit

Our World in Data; HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0