In 2023, population for Vanuatu was 334,506 persons. Over the last 50 years, population of Vanuatu grew substantially from 98,790 to 334,506 persons rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 3.27% in 1976 and then decreased to 2.38% in 2023.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. The values shown are midyear estimates.