🇲🇲Myanmar

Naypyidaw

Asia

Lower middle income

MMR

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Population

54.9M

0.6%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.10

births/woman

Life Expectancy

67.1y

GDP / capita

$1.5K

Pop. Growth

0.64%

Net Migration

-39.7K

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

🇨🇳China36.3K(52.7%)

+3%

🇮🇳India28.3K(41.0%)

+3%

🇵🇰

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

Male27.3MTotal 54.9M27.6MFemale

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

2.6

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

Where the Myanmar diaspora lives

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

🇹🇭Thailand1.7M(39.5%)

+36%

🇧🇩Bangladesh1.2M(28.9%)

+430%

🇨🇳China367.1K(8.5%)

12×

🇲🇾Malaysia308.1K(7.1%)

+30%

🇺🇸United States199.6K(4.6%)

+144%

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia163.3K(3.8%)

+0%

🇮🇳India132.6K(3.1%)

+99%

🇯🇵Japan92.2K(2.1%)

14×

🇦🇺Australia46.3K(1.1%)

+101%

🇰🇷Korea, Rep.25.7K(0.6%)

+127%

🇨🇦Canada10.4K(0.2%)

+36%

🇳🇿New Zealand3.8K(0.1%)

+132%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024