Cambodia

AsiaCapital city: Phnom PenhCapital metro: Phnom PenhMonarch: 👑 Norodom SihamoniPrime Minister: Hun Manet
2026 population
17.6M
Rank #74 globally
Area
181k km² (70k sq mi)
Metros tracked
5
19% of population in metros
Composite score
16.3
Rank #76 globally

population: Official projection (1 Jul 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 5 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography5 metros

Cambodia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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5 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 5 tracked metros
5 metros
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions

25 entries listed under Cambodia across 2 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

25 total

Municipalities (1)

📋 At a glance
Official language
Khmer
Currency
Riel (KHR)
Government
Constitutional monarchy
Legislature
Parliament of Cambodia
Demonym
Cambodian
Time zone
UTC+07:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+855
Internet TLD
.kh
ISO 3166
KH
Established
1953
Highest point
Phnom Aural (1,813 m (5,948 ft))
National anthem
Nokor Reach

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentLower middle income
Human Dev. Index
#149 / 191
0.606
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#93 / 193
$51.3B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#145 / 193
$2.9k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#136 / 190
$8.5k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#145 / 192
$2.8k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#127 / 194
70.8 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
25.8 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#149 / 194
41%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
1.2%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#88 / 193
99/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#173 / 193
0.5%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#164 / 175
0.07
V-Dem · 2025
Internet users
#123 / 193
68%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#70 / 185
2.4%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#64 / 192
1.2 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#81 / 186
41%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations3 full memberships

Political & Economic

Regional

Trade

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History17 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Restored Kingdom

Hun Manet✦ Current

2023Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2023-presentCambodian People's Party

👑 Norodom Sihamoni✦ Current

2004Present

Monarch

Tenure: 2004-present

⚠️ Hun Sen

19982023

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1998-2023Cambodian People's Party

👑 Norodom Sihanouk

19932004

Monarch

Tenure: 1993-2004

People's Republic of Kampuchea

⚠️ Hun Sen

19851993

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1985-1993Cambodian People's Party

Heng Samrin

19791992

President

Tenure: 1979-1992Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party

Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge genocide)

⚠️ Pol Pot

19761979

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1976-1979Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge)

Khmer Republic

Lon Nol

19721975

President

Tenure: 1972-1975Social Republican Party

Kingdom (Head of State)

Norodom Sihanouk

19601970

President

Tenure: 1960-1970Sangkum

Kingdom of Cambodia

👑 Norodom Suramarit

19551960

Monarch

Tenure: 1955-1960

👑 Norodom Sihanouk

19411955

Monarch

Tenure: 1941-1955

👑 Sisowath Monivong

19271941

Monarch

Tenure: 13y 8m 16d

👑 Sisowath

19041927

Monarch

Tenure: 23y 3m 16d

👑 Norodom

18601904

Monarch

Tenure: 43y 6m 5d

👑 Ang Duong

18411860

Monarch

Tenure: 19y 9m 18dyear-level dates

👑 Ang Mey

18351841

Monarch

Tenure: 6y 0dyear-level dates

👑 Ang Chan II

18061835

Monarch

Tenure: 29y 0dyear-level dates
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#72 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Cambodia · share of world power, 1953–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19457 interstate wars · click to expand
Combat deaths: 270,000–297,000
Combat deaths:
Vietnam War1965–1973
North Vietnam,FNL,Khmer Rouge,Khmer Issarak,Pathet Lao,China,North Korea,Soviet Union
Combat deaths: 1,326,494–3,447,494
Combat deaths:
Combat deaths:
Kingdom of Ayutthaya
Combat deaths:

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
17.4m
#73 in the world
Since 1800
8.34×
from 2.1m
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.21%
0.21% in 1800
4.5m9.0m13.5m18.1m18001850190019502000
Cambodia · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Cambodia: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak on the median
2078
23.4m on the UN median
2050
21.9m
95% band 14.2m to 33.3m
2100
22.7m
95% band 8.4m to 56.4m
2100 against 2025
1.27×
median falling from 2079
Deaths outnumber births
from 2088
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
14.8m29.6m44.4m59.3m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
204k born · 106k died · +2k net migration
TFR 6.53 · life expectancy 38.9 · median age 17.5
1960
239k born · 115k died · -5k net migration
TFR 6.31 · life expectancy 42.1 · median age 17.1
1970
279k born · 156k died · -193k net migration
TFR 6.07 · life expectancy 38.6 · median age 16.5
1980
245k born · 86k died · -134k net migration
TFR 5.77 · life expectancy 47.5 · median age 16.7
1990
342k born · 92k died · +58k net migration
TFR 5.64 · life expectancy 55.2 · median age 17.2
2000
355k born · 108k died · -51k net migration
TFR 3.79 · life expectancy 59.5 · median age 17.0
2010
363k born · 91k died · -50k net migration
TFR 2.86 · life expectancy 67.3 · median age 21.3
2020
375k born · 106k died · 0 net migration
TFR 2.70 · life expectancy 70.1 · median age 25.1
Show all 16 decades
2030
345k born · 129k died · -31k net migration
TFR 2.38 · life expectancy 71.8 · median age 27.1
2040
342k born · 157k died · -30k net migration
TFR 2.17 · life expectancy 73.2 · median age 29.6
2050
328k born · 183k died · -29k net migration
TFR 2.04 · life expectancy 74.5 · median age 32.2
2060
306k born · 211k died · -26k net migration
TFR 1.95 · life expectancy 75.9 · median age 35.0
2070
291k born · 240k died · -28k net migration
TFR 1.89 · life expectancy 77.2 · median age 37.1
2080
272k born · 253k died · -25k net migration
TFR 1.85 · life expectancy 78.5 · median age 39.0
2090
253k born · 261k died · -24k net migration
TFR 1.82 · life expectancy 79.8 · median age 41.0
2100
237k born · 274k died · -23k net migration
TFR 1.80 · life expectancy 81.1 · median age 42.7

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Cambodia on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.