🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea

Malabo

Africa

Upper middle income

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Population

1.9M

2.4%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

4.12

births/woman

Life Expectancy

63.9y

GDP / capita

$6.6K

Pop. Growth

2.40%

Net Migration

3.8K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Equatorial Guinea by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇫🇷France5.9K(52.2%)

+62%

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe1.9K(17.1%)

+62%

🇪🇸

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male1MTotal 1.9M917.1KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Where the Equatorial Guinea diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Equatorial Guinea who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇬🇦Gabon94.4K(69.0%)

+66%

🇪🇸Spain24.4K(17.8%)

+14%

🇬🇳Guinea9.9K(7.3%)

🇨🇲Cameroon4.3K(3.2%)

+61%

🇨🇬Congo, Rep.1.6K(1.1%)

+31%

🇲🇱Mali1.1K(0.8%)

+62%

🇨🇳China602(0.4%)

+281%

🇵🇹Portugal282(0.2%)

+45%

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe118(0.1%)

−28%

🇹🇬Togo108(0.1%)

+14%

🇮🇸Iceland36(0.0%)

12×

🇳🇴Norway14(0.0%)

+367%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024