🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe

Sao Tome

Africa

Lower middle income

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Population

240.3K

2.0%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

3.60

births/woman

Life Expectancy

69.9y

GDP / capita

$4.1K

Pop. Growth

1.98%

Net Migration

-650

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

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Sao Tome and Principe by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇨🇻Cabo Verde1.1K(58.5%)

−28%

🇦🇴Angola292(15.3%)

−28%

🇬🇦

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

No data available

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

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

Male119.4KTotal 240.3K120.9KFemale

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

3.2

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 Sao Tome and Principe diaspora lives

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

🇵🇹Portugal23.1K(55.8%)

+46%

🇦🇴Angola7.1K(17.0%)

+7%

🇬🇦Gabon7.1K(17.0%)

+66%

🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea1.9K(4.7%)

+62%

🇨🇻Cabo Verde1.9K(4.6%)

+15%

🇱🇺Luxembourg192(0.5%)

🇨🇫Central African Republic82(0.2%)

−5%

🇹🇬Togo40(0.1%)

+8%

🇬🇳Guinea29(0.1%)

🇩🇰Denmark9(0.0%)

🇳🇴Norway6(0.0%)

+200%

🇬🇷Greece4(0.0%)

−43%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024