🇸🇿Eswatini

Mbabane

Africa

Lower middle income

SWZ

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Population

1.3M

1.1%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.72

births/woman

Life Expectancy

64.3y

GDP / capita

$4.1K

Pop. Growth

1.07%

Net Migration

-5.8K

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 Eswatini by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇿🇦South Africa12.9K(49.8%)

+5%

🇲🇿Mozambique10.1K(39.3%)

−7%

🇨🇩

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

Male617KTotal 1.3M639.2KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

12.5

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇧🇮Burundi475(1.8%)

+32%

🇷🇼Rwanda392(1.5%)

+71%

🇺🇸United States262(1.0%)

+15%

🇱🇸Lesotho226(0.9%)

+14%

🇦🇴Angola135(0.5%)

−33%

🇨🇬Congo, Rep.72(0.3%)

+16%

🇺🇬Uganda55(0.2%)

+15%

🇦🇺Australia55(0.2%)

+25%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Eswatini diaspora lives

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

🇿🇦South Africa9.3K(80.5%)

−74%

🇵🇹Portugal742(6.4%)

+45%

🇧🇼Botswana642(5.6%)

+22%

🇦🇺Australia359(3.1%)

+6%

🇳🇦Namibia216(1.9%)

+10%

🇹🇿Tanzania84(0.7%)

−2%

🇱🇸Lesotho84(0.7%)

+133%

🇩🇰Denmark59(0.5%)

+28%

🇳🇴Norway21(0.2%)

+50%

🇬🇷Greece20(0.2%)

−9%

🇫🇮Finland12(0.1%)

+9%

🇧🇸Bahamas, The12(0.1%)

+9%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024