Réunion: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 249,000 people, so the population is now 3.6 times as large.

The UN projects 11,300 births and 5,270 deaths in 2026, 6,060 more births than deaths.

The UN projects the first year with more deaths than births in 2054.

More people leave than move in: net migration in 2026 is projected at minus 2,080.

The median age is 38.4, which is 7.3 years above the world’s 31.1.

20% of the people are under 15 and 16% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

The UN projects that people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under 15 from 2030.

Women have 2.1 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 7.0 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 83.9 years, above the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 47.6.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 941,000 people, 6.2% more than now, with a median age of 41.5.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 83.6 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 23.8 more years for women and 20.4 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 26.1 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 47.9.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 852,000, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 430,000 to 1.61 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 136,000 international migrants lived here, 15.4% of the population.

In mid-2024, 2,360 people from here lived in other countries.