Economy · Population · Eswatini
Eswatini’s population rose to 1.3 m people in 2025.
1.3 m people
2025
Up 0.01 m people from 2024.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
In plain words
1.3 m people
What it is. Population is the total number of people living in Eswatini, estimated for the middle of each year. It folds age, sex and location into one headline total, so the figure moves with births, deaths and migration while the make-up of the population stays out of view. It serves as the base for per-person measures such as income per head and spending per head.
Neither way is good in itself. A larger population is neither good nor bad in itself. What matters is whether jobs, housing, schools and clinics grow alongside it. The latest figure is 1.3 million people for Jan 2025, up from 1.2 million a year earlier, a rise of 1.1%. Since 2016 the lowest level was 1.1 million people, recorded in Jan 2016, and the highest is the current 1.3 million people, so the country sits at the top of its range for the period.
Why it matters. With 1.3 million people, Eswatini is a small domestic market, and each additional year of growth adds to the number of school places, clinic visits and homes needed. Firms draw on a labour pool of that size, and the state spreads its revenue across a population that is still growing at 1.1% a year.
| Period | Population · Eswatini |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 1.1 m people |
| 2017 | 1.2 m people |
| 2018 | 1.2 m people |
| 2019 | 1.2 m people |
| 2020 | 1.2 m people |
| 2021 | 1.2 m people |
| 2022 | 1.2 m people |
| 2023 | 1.2 m people |
| 2024 | 1.2 m people |
| 2025 | 1.3 m people |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Population, Eswatini, 2025; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/economy/population/eswatini
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Total population, mid-year estimate. Unit: m people.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series SP.POP.TOTL), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.