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Polynesia

It has 690,025 inhabitants on 8,109 km², with a density of 91 people per km². Life expectancy at birth is 77.8 years, women have 2.48 children on average and half the population is older than 29. GDP per capita is $13,901 (2025 figure).

Population pyramid

Key data, 2026

Indicator Value World Trend
Territory
Total area (km²) 8,109 (2024) 137 million
Land area (km²) 7,246 (2024) 130 million
Density (people per km²) 91.3 63.8
Population
Population 690,025 8.30 billion
Population growth (% a year) +0.02 +0.84
Median age (years) 29.0 32.1
Under 15 (%) 27.5 24.1
65 and over (%) 9.5 10.6
Urban population (%) 42.0 (2025) 57.7
Births and health
Children per woman 2.48 2.23
Life expectancy (years) 77.8 73.8
Life expectancy, men (years) 75.5 71.2
Life expectancy, women (years) 80.2 76.4
Infant mortality (‰ births) 9.3 26.1
Migration
Net migration (‰ people) -11.2 0.0
Economy and environment
GDP (dollars) $9.2B (2025) $117.32T
GDP per capita (dollars) $13,901 (2025) $14,306
GDP growth (%) +2.5 (2025) +4.3
GNI per capita PPP (international dollars) $9,329 (2025) $25,266
Unemployment (%) 7.6 (2025) 5.1
Greenhouse gases per capita (t CO₂e) 2.9 (2024) 6.3

Sources: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (after 2023 projections, dashed), and World Bank (the latest published figure, with the year in brackets if older). Rank among the 195 states. For regions the World Bank values are computed from the member countries.