🇴🇲Oman

Muscat

Middle East & North Africa

High income

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Population

5.5M

4.0%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.51

births/woman

Life Expectancy

80.2y

GDP / capita

$19.9K

Pop. Growth

3.96%

Net Migration

113.7K

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

🇮🇳India803.1K(38.7%)

+184%

🇧🇩Bangladesh737.1K(35.5%)

+184%

🇵🇰

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

Male3.4MTotal 5.5M2.1MFemale

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

0.1

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

🇪🇬Egypt, Arab Rep.85K(4.1%)

+184%

🇵🇭Philippines61.5K(3.0%)

+184%

🇱🇰Sri Lanka30.6K(1.5%)

+184%

🇸🇩Sudan22.4K(1.1%)

+184%

🇹🇿Tanzania20.9K(1.0%)

+184%

🇳🇵Nepal18.1K(0.9%)

+184%

🇯🇴Jordan15.2K(0.7%)

+184%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Oman diaspora lives

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

🇵🇸West Bank and Gaza12K(70.0%)

+16%

🇦🇺Australia2K(11.6%)

+61%

🇱🇾Libya1.9K(11.2%)

+27%

🇨🇱Chile458(2.7%)

+332%

🇱🇰Sri Lanka335(2.0%)

+3%

🇪🇬Egypt, Arab Rep.144(0.8%)

−52%

🇨🇾Cyprus64(0.4%)

−2%

🇳🇴Norway50(0.3%)

+43%

🇩🇰Denmark44(0.3%)

+132%

🇭🇺Hungary42(0.2%)

+147%

🇹🇯Tajikistan34(0.2%)

−8%

🇫🇮Finland19(0.1%)

+280%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024