Comoros

AfricaCapital city: MoroniCapital metro: MoroniPresident: Azali Assoumani
2026 population
944K
Rank #167 globally
Area
2k km² (719 sq mi)
Metros tracked
1
13% of population in metros
Composite score
0.3
Rank #220 globally

population: Official estimate (2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 1 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography1 metro

Comoros metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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

🏙️ 1 tracked metro
1 metros
#2443Moroni★ Capital▲ Largest
0.3
🗂️ Prefectures

18 entries listed under Comoros. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

18 total
📋 At a glance
Official languages
French, Arabic, Comorian
Government
Federal republic
Legislature
Assembly of the Union of the Comoros
Demonym
Comorian
Time zone
UTC+03:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+269
Internet TLD
.km
ISO 3166
KM
Established
1975
Highest point
Mount Karthala (2,361 m (7,746 ft))
National anthem
Udzima wa ya Masiwa

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentLower middle income
Human Dev. Index
#150 / 191
0.603
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#179 / 193
$1.8B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#155 / 193
$2.1k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#162 / 190
$4.2k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#155 / 192
$1.9k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#157 / 194
67.0 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
20.3 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#164 / 194
34%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
1.9%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#17 / 193
457/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#145 / 193
1.4%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#143 / 175
0.17
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#36 / 166
30.3
World Bank · 2024
Internet users
#165 / 193
33%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#94 / 185
3.2%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#45 / 192
0.6 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#186 / 186
0%
Ember · 2023

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 & Organisations4 full memberships

Political & Economic

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History14 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.

Azali Assoumani✦ Current

2016Present

President

Tenure: 10y 1m

Ikililou Dhoinine

20112016

President

Tenure: 5y 0m

Ahmed Abdallah Sambi

20062011

President

Tenure: 5y 0m

Azali Assoumani

20022006

President

Tenure: 4y 0m

Hamada Madi

20022002

President

Tenure: 0y 4m

Azali Assoumani

19992002

President

Tenure: 2y 8m

Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde

19981999

President

Tenure: 0y 5m

Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim

19961998

President

Tenure: 2y 7m

Said Mohamed Djohar

19891995

President

Tenure: 5y 10m

Ahmed Abdallah

19781989

President

Tenure: 11y 6m

Said Atthoumani

19781978

President

Tenure: 0y 0m

Ali Soilih

19761978

President

Tenure: 2y 4m
Show all 14 leaders

Said Mohamed Jaffar

19751976

President

Tenure: 0y 5m

Ahmed Abdallah

19751975

President

Tenure: 0y 0m
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#209 · 0.0%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Comoros · share of world power, 1975–2026

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.

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
850k
#164 in the world
Since 1800
15×
from 56k
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.01%
0.01% in 1800
225k450k674k899k18001850190019502000
Comoros · 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 Comoros: 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
after 2100
still growing at 2100
2050
1.3m
95% band 1.0m to 1.7m
2100
1.9m
95% band 856k to 4.6m
2100 against 2025
2.17×
median still rising in 2100
1.2m2.4m3.6m4.9m1950197520002025205020752100

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
7k born · 4k died · +817 net migration
TFR 5.69 · life expectancy 37.4 · median age 20.0
1960
10k born · 5k died · -1k net migration
TFR 6.79 · life expectancy 40.8 · median age 18.7
1970
12k born · 5k died · +966 net migration
TFR 7.10 · life expectancy 45.2 · median age 16.1
1980
16k born · 6k died · -344 net migration
TFR 7.15 · life expectancy 50.7 · median age 15.4
1990
19k born · 6k died · -2k net migration
TFR 6.50 · life expectancy 55.6 · median age 15.4
2000
19k born · 6k died · -3k net migration
TFR 5.23 · life expectancy 58.9 · median age 15.2
2010
23k born · 6k died · -4k net migration
TFR 4.75 · life expectancy 62.7 · median age 17.5
2020
24k born · 6k died · -2k net migration
TFR 4.07 · life expectancy 65.8 · median age 19.7
Show all 16 decades
2030
25k born · 6k died · -2k net migration
TFR 3.50 · life expectancy 68.4 · median age 21.3
2040
27k born · 7k died · -2k net migration
TFR 3.07 · life expectancy 70.4 · median age 23.3
2050
28k born · 8k died · -2k net migration
TFR 2.75 · life expectancy 72.1 · median age 25.4
2060
28k born · 10k died · -2k net migration
TFR 2.51 · life expectancy 73.8 · median age 27.5
2070
28k born · 11k died · -3k net migration
TFR 2.33 · life expectancy 75.4 · median age 29.8
2080
27k born · 13k died · -3k net migration
TFR 2.18 · life expectancy 76.9 · median age 32.2
2090
26k born · 15k died · -2k net migration
TFR 2.07 · life expectancy 78.4 · median age 34.5
2100
25k born · 17k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.98 · life expectancy 79.8 · median age 36.7

Every country to 2100 →

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

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