🇹🇱Timor-Leste

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Population

1.4M

1.3%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.63

births/woman

Life Expectancy

67.9y

GDP / capita

$1.3K

Pop. Growth

1.27%

Net Migration

-2.6K

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 Timor-Leste by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇮🇩Indonesia4.1K(56.8%)

−30%

🇨🇳China927(13.0%)

−22%

🇦🇺

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

Male715.2KTotal 1.4M703.3KFemale

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

4.1

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

🇵🇭Philippines366(5.1%)

−52%

🇵🇰Pakistan298(4.2%)

+22%

🇵🇹Portugal268(3.7%)

−20%

🇻🇳Viet Nam202(2.8%)

−3%

🇸🇬Singapore78(1.1%)

+4%

🇳🇿New Zealand69(1.0%)

−61%

🇧🇩Bangladesh66(0.9%)

−50%

🇧🇷Brazil63(0.9%)

−68%

🇲🇾Malaysia62(0.9%)

−64%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Timor-Leste diaspora lives

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

🇮🇩Indonesia95.6K(87.2%)

+186%

🇦🇺Australia11.5K(10.5%)

+9%

🇵🇹Portugal2.2K(2.0%)

+46%

🇬🇷Greece231(0.2%)

+0%

🇳🇴Norway9(0.0%)

−36%

🇨🇻Cabo Verde7(0.0%)

−13%

🇩🇰Denmark2(0.0%)

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024